{"id":52778,"date":"2015-04-20T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52778"},"modified":"2015-04-19T10:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T15:43:06","slug":"trulbert-the-final-installment-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52778","title":{"rendered":"Trulbert:  The Final Installment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0&#8211; 7AM, November 10, 3715: \u00a0Somewhere In What Was Minneapolis, MN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>George Taylor looked warily, scanning the jagged, geometric landscape around him, as Zira, the gorgeous blonde, clung to him on the back of the white stallion.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, he pulled up short, his face wrinkling with alarm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No!&#8221;, he yelled, the anguish palpable in his voice.<\/p>\n<p>He climbed off the horse. \u00a0&#8220;Oh, no, no, no&#8221;, he repeated, louder, his voice taking on an air of panic that started to alarm Zira.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor jogged a few steps. \u00a0&#8220;Noooooooo!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zira climbed off the horse, and wariliy stepped toward Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You blew the whole thing up!&#8221;, Taylor bellowed, falling to his knees, as Zira, sliding into panic herself, ran to him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You maniacs. \u00a0You did it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zira looked at the shape in the rubble ahead of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You blew the whole thing up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of them, a statue of Mary Tyler Moore, throwing her stocking cap into the air, sat, cockeyed and tilted backwards, amid a pile of long-weathered rubble.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damn you! \u00a0Damn you all! \u00a0Damn you all to hell!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Is this how &#8220;Trulbert&#8221; really ends? \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Check back this summer, when &#8220;Trulbert: \u00a0A Comic Novella About the End of the World As We Know It&#8221; comes out on E-Book!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Featuring new material not found in the blog serial (including, like, an ending!)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>From Buffalo Microchip Publishing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8211; 7AM, November 10, 3715: \u00a0Somewhere In What Was Minneapolis, MN George Taylor looked warily, scanning the jagged, geometric landscape around him, as Zira, the gorgeous blonde, clung to him on the back of the white stallion. Suddenly, he pulled up short, his face wrinkling with alarm. &#8220;No!&#8221;, he yelled, the anguish palpable in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-52778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","tag-trulbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52778"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52878,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52778\/revisions\/52878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}