{"id":4866,"date":"2022-09-17T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T12:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2022-09-17T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T12:38:04","slug":"tales-from-the-town-75-statues-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2022\/09\/17\/tales-from-the-town-75-statues-at-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #75: Statues At Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/statuesatnoon001s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/statuesatnoon001s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/statuesatnoon001s.jpg 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/statuesatnoon001s-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They stood like statues on the crest of the hill overlooking the house, stone watchers standing in judgement over all they surveyed. All that moved was their hair in the wind. No one knew where they had come from nor when they would leave. Perhaps only when all our crimes had been confessed would they disappear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This,&#8221; said Claire, through gritted teeth and clamped closed lips. &#8220;Is the worst game <em>ever<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written on 30th May, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They stood like statues on the crest of the hill overlooking the house, stone watchers standing in judgement over all they surveyed. All that moved was their hair in the wind. No one knew where they had come from nor when they would leave. Perhaps only when all our crimes had been confessed would they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[625,1397,1396,1209],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-games","tag-noon","tag-statues","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}