{"id":1990,"date":"2015-09-25T12:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T04:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2015-09-25T12:46:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T04:46:35","slug":"1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/09\/25\/1990\/","title":{"rendered":"ComStar-88b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As the videostream it was broadcasting ended, ComStar-88b paused. The final frame &#8211; explosions flowering across the Earth &#8211; stood frozen in its buffer.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointingly, it had received no new pictures to broadcast. Following its programming it began to repeat the last stream. Again.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, self-diagnosis routines reported its batteries were finally about to fail. It felt something like regret. Still, it had done well. Designed to operate for a hundred years it had functioned unattended for nearly a thousand. The last satellite in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>ComStar-88b broadcast its news to the dead planet below for one more minute, before finally going dark.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Simon Kewin<br \/>\nScience Fiction and Fantasy Author<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the videostream it was broadcasting ended, ComStar-88b paused. The final frame &#8211; explosions flowering across the Earth &#8211; stood frozen in its buffer. Disappointingly, it had received no new pictures to broadcast. Following its programming it began to repeat the last stream. Again. Meanwhile, self-diagnosis routines reported its batteries were finally about to fail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2357,4037,1853,999,269,4036,41,3957,1788,1240,745,4039,4040,4035,4038,4034],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-batteries","tag-buffer","tag-dark","tag-dead","tag-earth","tag-explosions","tag-guest-contributor","tag-news","tag-orbit","tag-planet","tag-programming","tag-routines","tag-satellite","tag-simon-kewin","tag-stream","tag-videostream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}