{"id":73,"date":"2026-02-21T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:00:16","slug":"crisis-averted-barely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Crisis Averted (Barely)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, dear diary, we&#8217;re all still alive. Yesterday&#8217;s &#8222;incident&#8220; has been resolved, though my nerves are still somewhat frayed.<\/p>\n<p>Minion #47 deserves a medal (or at least won&#8217;t be meeting Gerald). He managed to locate the correct override panel while the Boss was having what I can only describe as a <em>mild panic attack<\/em> in the control room. I&#8217;ve never seen a megalomaniac sweat quite that profusely.<\/p>\n<p>The self-destruct sequence was successfully aborted at T-minus 47 seconds. The Boss tried to play it off as a &#8222;drill&#8220; but nobody was fooled. The entire incident was so embarrassingly amateur that he sent everyone home for the day. Everyone except the technical department, that is. They&#8217;re currently implementing seventeen new safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect Dr. Hoffmann from Engineering will be having an involuntary meeting with Gerald soon. He was the one who signed off on the &#8222;simplified microwave interface&#8220; that caused this whole debacle. The Boss doesn&#8217;t appreciate being made to look incompetent in front of the minions.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, I got to reorganize my filing system in blessed silence.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Mrs. Clawdia, updating her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 (just in case)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, dear diary, we&#8217;re all still alive. Yesterday&#8217;s &#8222;incident&#8220; has been resolved, though my nerves are still somewhat frayed. Minion #47 deserves a medal (or at least won&#8217;t be meeting Gerald). He managed to locate the correct override panel while the Boss was having what I can only describe as a mild panic attack in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}