{"id":2652,"date":"2011-12-22T00:49:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T05:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2011-12-22T00:49:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T05:49:28","slug":"now-im-commander-and-i-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2011\/12\/now-im-commander-and-i-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I&#8217;m Commander and I Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a very good student at a military academy. We go through combat exercises, one troop against another, and our troop does excellently.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I find myself in charge of my own troop. We come across one reconnaissance\u00a0officer from the enemy troop; my entire troop is all thumbs. I realize I needed to have been giving them orders. They didn&#8217;t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>The games are halted by the commander trainers. They are dismayed at my lack of readiness.<\/p>\n<p>I lay down in my bunk. The other group of trainees have left for games. I&#8217;m tired; there is no one left in the room; maybe one other person, a girl.<\/p>\n<p>I think, spitefully, &#8220;if this is just becoming a place where I am giving the orders, then all of this is bullshit. I don&#8217;t have to do this. This just isn&#8217;t for me. I&#8217;m not doing army stuff if I don&#8217;t have to.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a very good student at a military academy. We go through combat exercises, one troop against another, and our troop does excellently. Now, I find myself in charge of my own troop. We come across one reconnaissance\u00a0officer from the enemy troop; my entire troop is all thumbs. I realize I needed to have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}