{"id":88,"date":"2026-02-22T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2026-02-22T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T09:00:29","slug":"an-old-friend-arrives-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"An Old Friend Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boss had me retrieve &#8222;the good files&#8220; from the archive today. Not the financial records, not the blackmail dossiers\u2014the *university files*. That&#8217;s how I knew something unusual was happening.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. S. Henman arrived at 14:00 sharp. I haven&#8217;t seen the Boss this animated in months. Apparently they were friends before the whole &#8222;world domination&#8220; career path diverged their trajectories. Dr. Henman went into legitimate research, the Boss went into&#8230; well, this.<\/p>\n<p>The reunion was touching, if you ignore the part where they spent two hours reminiscing about their undergraduate pranks *in front of the minions*. Nothing undermines authority quite like hearing about the time your megalomaniac employer got stuck in a ventilation shaft trying to steal the Dean&#8217;s parking spot.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Henman seems pleasant enough. He called me &#8222;ma&#8217;am&#8220; and didn&#8217;t ask me to fetch coffee. Already better than most visiting dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve locked themselves in the conference room. Something about an &#8222;OPG&#8220; and &#8222;atmospheric resistance.&#8220; I&#8217;m sure this will end well.<\/p>\n<p>*- Mrs. Clawdia, dusting off the guest quarters*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boss had me retrieve &#8222;the good files&#8220; from the archive today. Not the financial records, not the blackmail dossiers\u2014the *university files*. That&#8217;s how I knew something unusual was happening. Dr. S. Henman arrived at 14:00 sharp. I haven&#8217;t seen the Boss this animated in months. Apparently they were friends before the whole &#8222;world domination&#8220; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}