{"id":397,"date":"2007-03-28T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=397"},"modified":"2007-03-28T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T20:09:00","slug":"dead-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2007\/03\/28\/dead-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/madhams_ani.gif\" alt=\"Send more paramedics!\" hspace=\"3\" \/>Sitting at East Kilbride train station waiting for a train to take me back to Glasgow and from there back home via another change at Haymarket. This is what the end of the world will look like. Note the local zombie, standing there with typical zombie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=glaekit\">glaekit<\/a> vacancy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ravenbait\/437833575\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/159\/437833575_71bf04c3e3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Dead end.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>How much longer do I have to sit in the cold until a train comes? Bloody ages, that&#8217;s how long.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ravenbait\/437832188\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/165\/437832188_4122cfa58b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Waiting for the train home\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something depressing about the empty track stretching away into a single line of parallax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting at East Kilbride train station waiting for a train to take me back to Glasgow and from there back home via another change at Haymarket. This is what the end of the world will look like. Note the local zombie, standing there with typical zombie glaekit vacancy. 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