{"id":311,"date":"2004-12-26T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=311"},"modified":"2004-12-26T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2004-12-26T19:22:45","slug":"roast-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/26\/roast-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Roast Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the holiday feast, a scouting party staked out Magic Door Beach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/xscan.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Vigilance rewarded; extraterrestrial craft spotted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/xalien.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The radiolarians carpeted the coast, sending one of their number inland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/xinvade.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Back at the rancheria, the ambassador was found to have established a symbiosis with a beloved family pet, taking on the appearance of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/12\/12\/novelty_tongues_for_.html\" target=\"_blank\">rubber tongue<\/a>.  A win-win-win.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/xparasite.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We roasted a beast, and were at peace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/xpeace.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the holiday feast, a scouting party staked out Magic Door Beach. Vigilance rewarded; extraterrestrial craft spotted. The radiolarians carpeted the coast, sending one of their number inland. Back at the rancheria, the ambassador was found to have established a symbiosis with a beloved family pet, taking on the appearance of a rubber tongue. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}