{"id":11967,"date":"2015-08-01T21:31:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T21:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-unsafe-house-by-bruce-sterling\/"},"modified":"2015-08-01T21:31:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T21:31:17","slug":"the-unsafe-house-by-bruce-sterling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-unsafe-house-by-bruce-sterling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Unsafe House\u201d by Bruce Sterling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/brucesterling.tumblr.com\/post\/125616321443\">brucesterling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/the-unsafe-house-96151f0b746f\">https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/the-unsafe-house-96151f0b746f<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The narco pulled three steel thermoses out of his desk. The flasks were the size and shape of mortar rounds. He popped the tops and decanted a taste from each into three fancy Chinese porcelain cups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re risking your career to buy the best coffee left in this world,\u201d said the narco, blinking his tiny yet acute pig-like eyes. \u201cI can supply this coffee, because running illegal supply chains is my role in this unhappy world. But before I sell you any, I want you to experience three different types of coffee. Let\u2019s see if you can tell me which one is good, which is bad, and which is just weird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want me to guess about that?\u201d said the cop. The policeman was much younger than the Mexican narcotics lord, but had survived much similar action in similar arenas of violence and corruption. He was almost as intelligent as the ancient criminal\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>brucesterling: https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/the-unsafe-house-96151f0b746f The narco pulled three steel thermoses out of his desk. The flasks were the size and shape of mortar rounds. He popped the tops and decanted a taste from each into three fancy Chinese porcelain cups. \u201cYou\u2019re risking your career to buy the best coffee left in this world,\u201d said the narco, blinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-371","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}