{"id":142,"date":"2007-04-23T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=142"},"modified":"2010-04-13T05:04:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T09:04:12","slug":"the-cold-war-on-a-discworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/142","title":{"rendered":"The Cold War on a Discworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/\">Charlie Stross<\/a> did a web release of his novella <a href=\"http:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/index.php\/magazine\/spring2007\/fiction-missile-gap-by-charles-stross\/\">Missile Gap<\/a>. It&#8217;s well worth a read &#8211; Yuri Gargarin, transcendent intelligences and an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ekranoplan\">ekranoplan<\/a>! Hopefully, it won&#8217;t be giving too much away to mention that I&#8217;ve had a &#8216;social insects&#8217; post rattling around in draft form for a month or so &#8211; motivated by the sudden hive <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colony_Collapse_Disorder\">collapse<\/a> that&#8217;s been affecting honeybees recently.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Ekranoplan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2339\" title=\"Ekranoplan\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Ekranoplan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Ekranoplan.png 450w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Ekranoplan-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/div>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> &#8211; when pondering discworlds, remember  &#8211; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turtles_all_the_way_down\">turtles all the way down<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Charlie Stross did a web release of his novella Missile Gap. It&#8217;s well worth a read &#8211; Yuri Gargarin, transcendent intelligences and an ekranoplan! Hopefully, it won&#8217;t be giving too much away to mention that I&#8217;ve had a &#8216;social &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creatures","category-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-2i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}