{"id":208,"date":"2012-02-01T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2012-02-01T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:45:00","slug":"bits-on-on-the-acquisition-of-phoenix-eggs-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Bits On &#8216;On The Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant)&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you why I dig <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/fiction\/on-the-acquisition-of-phoenix-eggs-variant\/\">this <\/a>story.\u00a0 Great idea, well-presented &#8212; sure, sure. But the hook for me was the relationship between the stuck-up protagonist and her even stucker-up compatriots. They&#8217;re very clever and not evil in any way, so they&#8217;re likeable enough, but just getting them in a room together is enough to get the crinkling of conflict going. People who get along just aren&#8217;t as much fun to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you why I dig this story.\u00a0 Great idea, well-presented &#8212; sure, sure. But the hook for me was the relationship between the stuck-up protagonist and her even stucker-up compatriots. They&#8217;re very clever and not evil in any way, so they&#8217;re likeable enough, but just getting them in a room together is enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}