{"id":492,"date":"2011-08-18T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T13:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2011-08-18T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T13:05:39","slug":"matt-helm-tied-hand-and-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/matt-helm-tied-hand-and-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Helm: tied hand and foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this book up at the railway station lending library this morning and it fell open at the following, deathless excerpt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/silencers_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-463\" title=\"silencers cover\" src=\"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/silencers_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t rush me, darling,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re a dreadful cold-blooded, ruthless person, but I had to find you tonight. Do you understand? You\u2019re the only person I\u2019d care to be with tonight, whatever happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure,\u201d I said. \u201cI don\u2019t think much of you, either, glamor girl. You\u2019re unreliable and treacherous and arrogant and selfish. If you happen to think a man\u2019s done you a bad turn, you can\u2019t even be trusted tied hand and foot. You\u2019re mean and vengeful, and the only reason I love you is that I can\u2019t hurt you, and even if I do you\u2019ve had it coming for years. Besides, I know you\u2019ll always get back at me somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was smiling happily at the end of this recital. \u201cBut you do love me, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHell,\u201d I said. \u201cYou know I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I want a blu-ray box set of Dean Martin&#8217;s Matt Helm movies right now. SORT IT OUT, BOFFINS!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this book up at the railway station lending library this morning and it fell open at the following, deathless excerpt. \u201cDon\u2019t rush me, darling,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re a dreadful cold-blooded, ruthless person, but I had to find you tonight. Do you understand? You\u2019re the only person I\u2019d care to be with tonight, whatever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}