{"product_id":"boston","title":"Boston","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBoston\u003c\/strong\u003e has a problem with its dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSpecifically, it has more of them than it admits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Office of the Second Census has spent centuries counting death through hospitals, churches, courts, cemeteries and governments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThen another jurisdiction appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eLindall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIt counts through witnesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWidows. Nurses. Children. Friends. Anyone who remembers somebody the city does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis is administratively horrifying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSoon seven hundred and nine death notices arrive, all signed by the deceased. One belongs to a man who is still alive and mildly annoyed that the Office has called before breakfast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThen the count gets larger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMuch larger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBoston has spent centuries putting inconvenient people somewhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eUnfortunately, somewhere else has kept excellent records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Office eventually encounters the most dangerous possible thing in bureaucracy:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eanother office with jurisdiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIt has a complaint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFrom Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBoston has been waiting a very long time to be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncluded free:\u003c\/strong\u003e a complete Reality Services story, where the municipal problems are less dead but not necessarily easier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reality Services Office","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53990601719992,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/4459\/2824\/files\/Boston_1500x1200T.png?v=1787807444","url":"https:\/\/realityservicesoffice.com\/products\/boston","provider":"Reality Services Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}