{"id":144,"date":"2013-06-21T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/host2021.temp.domains\/~nationo0\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/fingerthief-by-david-hartley\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T09:38:00","slug":"fingerthief-by-david-hartley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/fingerthief-by-david-hartley\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fingerthief&#8217; by David Hartley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper; text-kashida-space: 50%; text-kashida-space: 50%;\"><span lang=\"en-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The bastard may know what those fingers were responsible for, he may feel like chief prosecutor of my soul, he may even feel slighted by the ineffectual judicial system that acquitted me, he clearly knows how to spirit himself in and out of locked doors, how to make surgical amputations without tools, how to make real life feel like nightmare until it is too late, and I\u2019d bet my life he\u2019s watching me now somehow \u2013 but I\u2019ll be damned if I\u2019ll give him the satisfaction of seeing me dial 999 with my nose. <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>[&#8216;Fingerthief&#8217; is just one of the stories in <a href=\"http:\/\/gumbopress.co.uk\/threshold.html\">David&#8217;s collection, Threshold.<\/a>]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bastard may know what those fingers were responsible for, he may feel like chief prosecutor of my soul, he may even feel slighted by the ineffectual judicial system that acquitted me, he clearly knows how to spirit himself in and out of locked doors, how to make surgical amputations without tools, how to make &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Fingerthief&#8217; by David Hartley\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/fingerthief-by-david-hartley\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;Fingerthief&#8217; by David Hartley\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}