{"id":9781,"date":"2011-06-12T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9781"},"modified":"2011-06-12T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T16:37:06","slug":"second-excerpt-from-rule-34-bycharles-stross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/second-excerpt-from-rule-34-bycharles-stross\/","title":{"rendered":"Second excerpt from <em>Rule 34<\/em> by Charles Stross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles is posting a few excerpts from his soon-to-be-released new book <em>Rule 34<\/em>. This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2011\/06\/rule-34-part-two.html\" target=\"_blank\">second<\/a> in the series.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2011\/06\/rule-34-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">first part<\/a> included a definition of that obscure phrase &#8220;a two-wetsuit job&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A <em>two<\/em>-wetsuit job means <em>kinky beyond the call of duty<\/em>. [. . .] Back in the naughty noughties a fifty-one-year-old Baptist minister was found dead in his Alabama home wearing not one but <em>two<\/em> wet suits and sundry bits of exotic rubber underwear, with a dildo up his arse. (The cover-up of the doubly-covered-up deceased finally fell before a Freedom of Information Act request.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as if it&#8217;s like isnae well-known in Edinburgh, city of grey stone propriety and ministers stern and saturnine (with the most <em>surprising<\/em> personal habits). But propriety &mdash; and the exigencies of service under the mob of puritanical arseholes currently in the ascendant in Holyrood &mdash; dictates discretion. If Jase is calling it openly, it&#8217;s got to be pretty blatant. <em>Excessively<\/em> blatant. Tabloid grade, even.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles is posting a few excerpts from his soon-to-be-released new book Rule 34. This is the second in the series. The first part included a definition of that obscure phrase &#8220;a two-wetsuit job&#8221;: A two-wetsuit job means kinky beyond the call of duty. [. . .] Back in the naughty noughties a fifty-one-year-old Baptist minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[406,85],"class_list":["post-9781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","tag-rule34","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2xL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9788,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions\/9788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}