{"id":2308,"date":"2016-05-16T09:52:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2016-05-18T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T19:27:53","slug":"faster-than-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/05\/16\/faster-than-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster Than Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When it was just science fiction, faster than light travel was<br \/>\ndepicted in terms of sight and sound. Stars would blur into radial<br \/>\nlines, as layers of synthesised sound effects bombarded a 21st century<br \/>\nmovie audience.<\/p>\n<p>Now that it&#8217;s reality, it&#8217;s the smell that dominates. The overpowering<br \/>\nreek of rotten sauerkraut mixed with fecal notes that sticks to you<br \/>\nfor weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Harold always dreads an assignment on a new planet, but when you work<br \/>\nin galactic trade you go where the company sends you.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel receptionist sniffs and wrinkles her button nose before<br \/>\npolitely enquiring: &#8220;Have you travelled far?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ross Clement<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it was just science fiction, faster than light travel was depicted in terms of sight and sound. Stars would blur into radial lines, as layers of synthesised sound effects bombarded a 21st century movie audience. Now that it&#8217;s reality, it&#8217;s the smell that dominates. The overpowering reek of rotten sauerkraut mixed with fecal notes [&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":[2721,4144,341,4837,4842,41,3156,976,1240,4839,1774,4843,4196,4841,82,4838,2073,2914,4840,484,4844,4356],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-21st-century","tag-audience","tag-company","tag-faster-than-light-travel","tag-fecal","tag-guest-contributor","tag-hotel","tag-movie","tag-planet","tag-radial-lines","tag-reality","tag-receptionist","tag-ross-clement","tag-saurkraut","tag-science-fiction","tag-sight","tag-smell","tag-sound","tag-sound-effects","tag-stars","tag-trade","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}