fix story caching stuff once and for all

extras/sponge.rb

@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ class Sponge
     end
 
     host = Net::HTTP.new(ip.to_s, uri.port)
+    host.read_timeout = self.timeout
     if self.debug
       host.set_debug_output $stdout
     end
@@ -161,12 +162,10 @@ class Sponge
     end
 
     res = nil
-    Timeout.timeout(self.timeout) do
-      if method == :post
-        res = host.post(path, post_data, headers)
-      else
-        res = host.get(path, headers)
-      end
+    if method == :post
+      res = host.post(path, post_data, headers)
+    else
+      res = host.get(path, headers)
     end
 
     if res.get_fields("Set-Cookie")

extras/story_cacher.rb

@@ -27,9 +27,14 @@ class StoryCacher
       if res.present?
         j = JSON.parse(res)
 
+        # turn newlines into double newlines, so they become paragraphs
+        j["text"].gsub!("\n", "\n\n")
+
         while j["text"].match("\n\n\n")
           j["text"].gsub!("\n\n\n", "\n\n")
         end
+
+        return j["text"]
       end
 
     rescue => e