{"id":733,"date":"2016-11-09T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T20:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2016-11-09T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T20:04:51","slug":"new-post-piratesluck-chapter-fivelet-em-take-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"New Post #Pirate&#8217;sLuck&#8211;Chapter Five~Let &#8216;Em Take Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?attachment_id=727\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-727\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PL-CH-5.jpg\" alt=\"Pirate&#039;s Luck \" width=\"350\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PL-CH-5.jpg 350w, https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PL-CH-5-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Let him die.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did not just say that,\u201d said Arekan. He knew the first mate was a hard man, but he didn\u2019t think Grokin would be cold hearted enough to let a member of his crew die.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m afraid so,\u201d said Egren. He had pressed a button at his neck on his spacesuit, and Arekan could not hear Grokin. \u201cOur first mate has a \u2018let \u2018em take prisoners\u2019 policy. It deters those that try to use extortion to  get our goods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreator,\u201d muttered Arekan. He peered out over the edge of the hatch to see Obon clutching the swaying tether. \u201cWe need to get him up here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what those pirates want. They\u2019ll be right in back of him to board this ship with us too afraid of killing our own man to do anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?page_id=581\">(click here to read on)<\/a> or go <a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?page_id=585\">here to read the first chapter of the serial<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Image by Starrynight Graphix. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let him die. \u201cHe did not just say that,\u201d said Arekan. He knew the first mate was a hard man, but he didn\u2019t think Grokin would be cold hearted enough to let a member of his crew die. \u201cI\u2019m afraid so,\u201d said Egren. He had pressed a button at his neck on his spacesuit, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[55,199,200,218,250,264,270,281],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-challenges","category-uncategorized","tag-arekan-morastan","tag-nanowrimo","tag-nanowrimo-progress-2","tag-pirates-luck","tag-science-fiction","tag-serial-fiction","tag-sff","tag-space-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}