{"id":7977,"date":"2013-06-23T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/06\/23\/detectivephiliac-she-didnt-touch-the-tea\/"},"modified":"2013-06-23T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T21:16:00","slug":"detectivephiliac-she-didnt-touch-the-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/06\/23\/detectivephiliac-she-didnt-touch-the-tea\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/detectivephiliac.tumblr.com\/post\/53701039254\/whiteknighthakuba-i-appreciate-that\">detectivephiliac<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>*She didn\u2019t touch the tea quite yet, preferring to focus fully on the story.*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/b963160353abf34e7a790038418199bb\/tumblr_inline_mov5zeyCXw1qz4rgp.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You returned? When was this? And when did you obtain your lighter?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/ce74ddbc0b8fb5906dacb3fcbf001891\/tumblr_inline_mov6ttPgW11qz4rgp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hakuba added two sugars and a dollop of honey to his tea, then stirred it silently while he considered his answer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I returned approximately fifteen minutes after I had left,&rdquo; he said calmly. Really, it was 13:45:33 minutes, but in recent conversations with others, it seemed that most found that level of detail unnecessary and pretentious.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The lighter had been in my suit jacket, as it is now, in one of the inner pockets. I unintentionally left the jacket behind when it was requested that I leave. When I returned those fifteen-&rdquo; he winced, just faintly, at the inaccuracy, &ldquo;-minutes later, \u00a0it was gone. Shortly thereafter, Hattori-san reappeared and returned it &#8211; but only after some choice, scathing remarks about how &rsquo;&hellip;something so simple as a cross&hellip; inject[ed] fear like a syringe injects hot air into an IV line,&rsquo; I believe it was.&rdquo; Hakuba didn&rsquo;t bother trying to emulate the Osakan&rsquo;s awful accent. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ridiculous. Honestly, I hadn&rsquo;t expected my colleague to be a thief, but I suppose anyone is capable of crime.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hakuba set the stirring spoon aside and sipped his tea.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>detectivephiliac: *She didn\u2019t touch the tea quite yet, preferring to focus fully on the story.* You returned? When was this? And when did you obtain your lighter? Hakuba added two sugars and a dollop of honey to his tea, then stirred it silently while he considered his answer. &ldquo;I returned approximately fifteen minutes after I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2423,76,75],"class_list":["post-7977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-detectivephiliac","tag-ic","tag-rp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}