{"id":483,"date":"2020-02-05T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/?p=483"},"modified":"2020-02-05T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:22:07","slug":"writers-journal-104-scorched-earth-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/05\/writers-journal-104-scorched-earth-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers\u2019 Journal #104 \u2013 Scorched Earth \u2013 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Space Chicken. Oh, yes. I remember it from the Academy. You mean the robot that travels across the universe and uses the resources to multiply itself?&#8221; asked Neva. Being one of the top graduates, the other being Dio from the Academy from his cohort meant that Neva was a walking, talking encyclopedia. His &#8220;elephant&#8221; memory helped a lot. He could recall facts and writings that most students in the current Academy would not even remember after midterm examination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What if they \u00a0were Space Chickens?&#8221; replied Dio with another question. &#8220;They came here and all signs point to the fact that they built the pyramids on Earth. So, what else am I missing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If this would be another of their unending arguments, I had to stop them there. Having two of the brightest graduates meant I acted more like a teacher than a Captain whenever we were by ourselves, like in that instance. They would often start an innocent discussion and either side would not give up till I had to come in between them as the Captain of the ship. \u00a0But in the situation we were in, there wasn&#8217;t time for such a discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ok guys, let&#8217;s focus. What does it matter if they were Space Chickens or space dinosaurs? We need to bring back the ship back to where it was before it disappeared,&#8221; I raised my voice but made it louder for my last word. &#8220;Now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know, but this point is important. If they were Space Chickens, then no matter how intelligent they seemed to be, they were still robots. There must be a manual somewhere here.&#8221; said Dio while looking at the walls from building to building. I finally understood the point of the aliens being Space Chickens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Space Chicken. Oh, yes. I remember it from the Academy. You mean the robot that travels across the universe and uses the resources to multiply itself?&#8221; asked Neva. Being one of the top graduates, the other being Dio from the Academy from his cohort meant that Neva was a walking, talking encyclopedia. His &#8220;elephant&#8221; memory helped a lot. He could recall facts and writings that most students in the current Academy would not even remember after midterm examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,51,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","category-writers-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersjournal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}