{"id":808,"date":"2025-09-24T13:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/?page_id=808"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:15:41","slug":"71-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/71-2\/","title":{"rendered":"71"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Without having visibly traversed the space between the bar and your table, Aileen is at your shoulder. \u201cIs there a problem here, Sparrar?\u201d She asks quietly. It\u2019s the quietest thing you have heard her say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Sparrar sighs, \u201cah, here she comes! The Wicked Witch of County Cork. Don\u2019t you have no pint pots that need cleaning?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201dI asked you a question,\u201d says Aileen. Even quieter this time. The pub is now so silent that you can hear Adrian\u2019s leather jeans creaking in the pool room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201dThis is the problem,\u201d Sparrar indicates you, \u201cand this princess here is the problem,\u201d he &nbsp;indicates Bae, across the table, and then his voice leaps into a roar, \u201cand you are the bloody problem here, girl!\u201d He plays to the crowd. \u201cEveryone knows, right? Shocking, innit? An old hag like you shacking up with a princess like\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Bae is on her feet, \u201cI am not a fucking princess!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Do you, put two and two together and recoil from Aileen and Bae in shock? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/83-2\/\">goto 83<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>Do you, stay frosty and ride this out? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/87-2\/\">goto 87<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>Or do you run from the pub crying? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/66-2\/\">goto 66<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without having visibly traversed the space between the bar and your table, Aileen is at your shoulder. \u201cIs there a problem here, Sparrar?\u201d She asks quietly. It\u2019s the quietest thing you have heard her say. Sparrar sighs, \u201cah, here she comes! The Wicked Witch of County Cork. Don\u2019t you have no pint pots that need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-808","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/808\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}