{"id":763,"date":"2016-12-05T04:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T09:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2016-12-05T04:15:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T09:15:17","slug":"pirates-luck-chapter-sevenhooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Pirate&#8217;s Luck&#8211;Chapter Seven~Hooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?attachment_id=761\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-761\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PL-Ch-7-Hooked.jpg\" alt=\"Pirate&#039;s Luck, sci-fi, adventure, SF, SFF\" width=\"350\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PL-Ch-7-Hooked.jpg 350w, https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PL-Ch-7-Hooked-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>\u201cYou\u2019re a damned idiot,\u201d said a familiar voice. \u201cSeven lashes were more than enough and you struck too deep. Now, he\u2019s out of commission for at least a month. What use is he now, eh? I\u2019ll be paying for his upkeep and getting no work out of him.\u201d Arekan placed the complaining voice as Etharin as he came to consciousness face down in a bunk not his own. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m tired of his attitude. He won\u2019t do a damn thing I tell him.\u201d Grokin said belligerently. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what about you, eh? You disobeyed my order. Should I give you ten lashes, eh?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Arekan thought that was a great idea. He\u2019d love to see Grokin get a slice of his own treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry, sir,\u201d said Grokin. He didn\u2019t sound penitent but Etharin didn\u2019t seem eager to prove a point. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou damn well better be sorry,\u201d said Etharin. \u201cWe are short men as and he is a good blade. We\u2019d be the ones spaced if it wasn\u2019t for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAye, sir,\u201d said Grokin. His voice was rough with reluctant agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen will he wake, you think?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?page_id=758\">here to continue<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/?page_id=585\">start here at the first chapter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cover art by Starry Night Graphixs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019re a damned idiot,\u201d said a familiar voice. \u201cSeven lashes were more than enough and you struck too deep. Now, he\u2019s out of commission for at least a month. What use is he now, eh? I\u2019ll be paying for his upkeep and getting no work out of him.\u201d Arekan placed the complaining voice as Etharin [&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":[19,24,27],"tags":[44,55,145,218,250,264,270,281],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-fiction","category-morastani-universe","category-pirates-luck","tag-adventure","tag-arekan-morastan","tag-free-fiction","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\/763","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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethturnage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}