{"id":2074,"date":"2015-11-16T21:10:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T04:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2015-11-17T22:02:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:02:28","slug":"proof-of-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2015\/11\/16\/proof-of-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof Of Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In hindsight, it a was generous offer by the aliens. Submit to genetic engineering and humanity&#8217;s intelligence would be doubled.<\/p>\n<p>They certainly have demonstrated what we missed out on. We were far too suspicious of the motives of others.<\/p>\n<p>I shake the trotter of Lily, a piebald pig who took a scant five minutes to beat me at chess.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that you&#8217;re the most intelligent species on Earth, is there any need for mankind any more?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She yawned. &#8220;They gave us intelligence, but you have opposable thumbs. There&#8217;s going to be plenty of manual work for you humans to do.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ross Clement<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In hindsight, it a was generous offer by the aliens. Submit to genetic engineering and humanity&#8217;s intelligence would be doubled. They certainly have demonstrated what we missed out on. We were far too suspicious of the motives of others. I shake the trotter of Lily, a piebald pig who took a scant five minutes to [&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":[422,4264,269,4260,3003,541,2625,4261,4265,4268,4259,4267,4263,2338,4262,4266],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-aliens","tag-chess","tag-earth","tag-genetic-engineering","tag-hindsight","tag-humanity","tag-humans","tag-intelligence","tag-intelligent","tag-manual-labor","tag-offer","tag-opposable-thumb","tag-piepald","tag-pig","tag-suspicious","tag-yawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","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=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}