{"id":32136,"date":"2026-02-13T13:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=32136"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:50:06","slug":"killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe I have just read your short story <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is brutal to say the least <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is just black and white <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The developers the planning committees <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are portrayed as the bad guys <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are assassinated in cold blood <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without any mercy being shown <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were the bad guys Rob <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But was direct action the only option <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my characters Charlotte <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answers this question quite clearly <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After her arrest and detention <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She notes that those who were assassinated <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were given a clear option <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop now abandon your plans <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plead guilty to your crimes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bribes and the corruption <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or you will suffer the consequences <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then why were the STAN gang finally caught <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because they had made people think <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People now realised the truth <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If STAN had carried on <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then it would have lost its strength <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even before the government minister was killed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were cracks appearing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is why Charlotte is caught <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> After being betrayed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> By a member of the gang <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe I have just read your short story It is brutal to say the least It is just black and white The developers the planning committees Are portrayed as the bad guys They are assassinated in cold blood Without any mercy being shown They were the bad guys Rob But was direct action the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32136"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32149,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32136\/revisions\/32149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}