{"id":740,"date":"2016-11-11T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2016-11-11T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:20:14","slug":"pirates-luck-chapter-6crimes-and-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Pirate&#8217;s Luck: Chapter 6~Crimes and Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?attachment_id=728\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-728\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PL-CH-6.jpg\" alt=\"Chapter Six-Pirate&#039;s Luck\" width=\"350\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PL-CH-6.jpg 350w, https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PL-CH-6-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arekan kicked out his leg and clocked the intruder in the jaw. The man staggered back, sword in hand, but he did not fall. His gaze fixed on Arekan with a murderous expression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll kill you,\u201d the pirate growled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetter men have tried,\u201d said Arekan with more bravado than he felt. \u201cBut you are welcome to give it a go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s face turned a beet red as he pushed himself toward Arekan, his sword pointed toward the nineteen year old. As the man\u2019s sword came within Arekan\u2019s reach, the youth stepped to the man\u2019s left, away from the man\u2019s dominant arm, whipped around in a full three hundred and sixty degree turn, and slashed man\u2019s torso. The man halted in his tracks, and then tottered falling to the deck groaning and bleeding. As miserable as the man looked and sounded Arekan could have aimed higher and severed the man\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?page_id=731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(click here to read more)<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?page_id=585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here to start with Chapter One<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Art by Starry Night Graphixs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arekan kicked out his leg and clocked the intruder in the jaw. The man staggered back, sword in hand, but he did not fall. His gaze fixed on Arekan with a murderous expression. \u201cI\u2019ll kill you,\u201d the pirate growled. \u201cBetter men have tried,\u201d said Arekan with more bravado than he felt. \u201cBut you are welcome [&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-740","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\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}