{"id":5868,"date":"2023-12-12T13:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2023-12-12T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:51:31","slug":"symbiotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/12\/12\/symbiotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbiotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When she saved me from the Caligulan Brain Fever outbreak, I stopped seeing my NUR-5E unit as just a fussy nuisance. Fascinated, I threw myself into learning coding and robotics, and now she\u2019ll never be touched by anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>We look after each other, you see: she keeps me alive, and with my skills I upgrade her, and deal with any viruses or mechanical issues. I\u2019ve outlived all the \u2018friends\u2019 who called me mad, and she is decades past her notional service life. We\u2019ll never stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love you,\u201d I say. \u201cI will always care for you,\u201d she replies. \u201cForever.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Alastair Millar<\/p>\n<p>Alastair is an archaeologist by training and a translator by trade. His published flash fiction (and social links) can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/alastairmillar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she saved me from the Caligulan Brain Fever outbreak, I stopped seeing my NUR-5E unit as just a fussy nuisance. Fascinated, I threw myself into learning coding and robotics, and now she\u2019ll never be touched by anyone else. We look after each other, you see: she keeps me alive, and with my skills I [&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":[10779,667,12353,4895,2566,3890,116,41,12355,12351,12350,12354,12356,6421,12349,12352,7166],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alastair-millar","tag-brain","tag-coding","tag-decades","tag-fever","tag-forever","tag-friends","tag-guest-contributor","tag-mechanical-issues","tag-nuisance","tag-outbreak","tag-robotics","tag-service-life","tag-skills","tag-symbiotes","tag-unit","tag-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","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=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5869,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions\/5869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}