{"id":1729,"date":"2014-07-22T03:52:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T17:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threecolordisasters.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2015-09-15T21:44:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T11:44:40","slug":"micro-fiction-38-are-you-being-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"#38: Are You Being Served"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They came en-masse. Old, wornout, young; male, female, other; sane, insane, unassessed. Piss shit garbage clung to them, marked them as Other. A large quiet group walking in the mall. A school of grimy sardines they turned, and entered Jones\u2019 Department Store.<\/p>\n<p>They split up. They looked wonderingly at brushes; frowned in confusion at clothes; poked dirty fingers at shoe soles.<\/p>\n<p>A young manager approached a knot of them. They were admiring an alpine outfit, Ready For Winter 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He cleared his throat, paused. \u201cMay\u00a0I help you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A man turned, shook his head. \u201cNo, we\u2019re just browsing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came en-masse. Old, wornout, young; male, female, other; sane, insane, unassessed. Piss shit garbage clung to them, marked them as Other. A large quiet group walking in the mall. A school of grimy sardines they turned, and entered Jones\u2019 Department Store. They split up. They looked wonderingly at brushes; frowned in confusion at clothes; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/?p=1729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#38: Are You Being Served<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abnormal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gary.giraph.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}