{"id":169,"date":"2010-11-26T15:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T23:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2010-11-26T15:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T23:33:36","slug":"spaced-out-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/spaced-out-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaced out art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when I&#8217;m writing a story, I find myself compelled to paint a picture of some part of it. This is an image of a thing I call the Earth Rover, a visitor from another world. I&#8217;ve got a question for you. Do you think it looks: A. Cute; B. Not-so-cute; C. Downright scary, D. Like it might grab you in pincher claws and stuff you into a sample return capsule and blast you off on a trajectory to Aldebaran?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/EarthRoverL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/EarthRoverL.jpg\" alt=\"I want to sample humanity\" title=\"Earth Rover\" width=\"403\" height=\"256\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/EarthRoverL.jpg 403w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/EarthRoverL-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t really finished the story, so I don&#8217;t have the answer yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m developing a mystery story called &#8220;Space Case&#8221; in which a man accused of murder uses alien abduction as an alibi. It&#8217;s a patently false excuse &#8212; or is it??? <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/spaced-out-art\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[53,5,37],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-outta-space","category-peyton-mckean","tag-mystery","tag-peyton-mckean","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}