{"id":257,"date":"2022-06-04T15:12:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T15:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/?p=257"},"modified":"2022-06-04T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T15:12:05","slug":"baby-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/2022\/06\/04\/baby-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The car pulled to a halt, smart alloys by the kerb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Keep the engine running, we&#8217;ll be back in four minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He watched as they got out of the car, masks on, and headed across the road to the bank. Ignoring them he turned up the music, a bass riff supplemented by an orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the lyrics in the song started his still pose ended, shoulders and torso jerking to the music, his mouth opening in a lip sync to the song thundering in his earbuds. He didn&#8217;t see or hear the anger and tension in the bank, the gunshots, the police sirens responding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The music ended, and his still repose retuned. Just for a moment. A new track, and the car doors opening. As he started dancing in his seat to the music a shotgun was slung beside him, two large canvas bags full of money hit the back seat and the man in front pointed his finger forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything paused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three bank robbers looked at each other, then at their driver. &#8220;Baby? We need to go!&#8221; yelled the man in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baby looked back at the man and gurgled happily. Such nice people, strapping him into this cosy car seat and letting him listen to music. He wondered where they&#8217;d take him next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car pulled to a halt, smart alloys by the kerb. &#8220;Keep the engine running, we&#8217;ll be back in four minutes.&#8221; He watched as they got out of the car, masks on, and headed across the road to the bank. Ignoring them he turned up the music, a bass riff supplemented by an orchestra. As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-snippet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stories.annaumea.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}