{"id":971,"date":"2025-03-07T22:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/971\/the-weight-of-shells\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T22:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:27:13","slug":"the-weight-of-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/971\/the-weight-of-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weight of Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory\u2019s head hatched this morning. His yolk dripped down his shoulders as a new head, softer and pinker, blinked into existence. His coworkers at the accounting firm congratulated him, shaking his hand, admiring his fresh cranium.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll feel sharper now,&#8221; said Janet from HR, patting her own smooth, newly hatched head. Gregory nodded, though something felt wrong. He missed the old weight of his mind, the memories now faded.  <\/p>\n<p>At lunch, he saw Dennis in the breakroom, his head cracked but resisting. Half-hatched. Struggling. \u201cYou need help?\u201d Gregory asked.  <\/p>\n<p>Dennis shook his half-head. &#8220;I think I\u2019ll keep it a little longer.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Gregory stared. He recognized something\u2014his own reluctance, his own doubt. But protocol dictated hatchings. He hesitated, then whispered, \u201cWhat was my last head like?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Dennis grinned. \u201cYou told the best jokes.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Gregory looked at his untouched eggshell in the trash, a life discarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the best parts of you were thrown away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":970,"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-971","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":"970","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyisinfinite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}