{"id":923,"date":"2025-03-01T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T03:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/923\/fractured-reflections\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T03:01:12","slug":"fractured-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/923\/fractured-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractured Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory awoke to find his skin replaced with living glass. Light filtered through his veins, refracting his organs into mesmerizing patterns. He stepped outside, and the neighbors gasped.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t go to work like that,&#8221; his boss scolded. &#8220;You&#8217;ll distract the others.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>At the caf\u00e9, his reflection split into kaleidoscopic versions of himself. &#8220;You&#8217;re making the customers uncomfortable,&#8221; the barista mumbled.  <\/p>\n<p>Gregory wrapped himself in bandages, but people still stared. He tried to act normal, to blend in, but his transparency betrayed him.  <\/p>\n<p>One evening, a woman approached, her body shimmering with liquid silver. &#8220;They stare at me too,&#8221; she whispered.  <\/p>\n<p>Gregory smiled. Light from within her danced through his crystal limbs, casting colors neither had seen before. Together, they walked, radiant and unapologetic, as the world shielded its eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He woke up made of glass\u2014impossible to hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizzaro","category-fiction"],"_wp_attached_file":null,"_wp_attachment_metadata":null,"_thumbnail_id":"922","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}