{"id":468,"date":"2011-08-20T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T23:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2011-08-21T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T21:21:58","slug":"meet-gar-the-kra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/meet-gar-the-kra\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Gar, the Kra"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Meet<\/a>The cast of characters of my Dinosaur Wars stories includes not just heroes and villains, but some important supporting players as well. F’rinstance, meet Gar, the Kra.<\/p>\n

Now, I’ll be the first to admit Gar doesn’t seem a very likely friend and ally for Chase Armstrong and Kit Daniels, the hero and heroine of Dinosaur Wars, but looks can be deceiving. Sure, Gar has long dinosaurian jaws equipped with fangs that could chomp a human in half pretty quickly. Sure, Gar is toting a nasty Kra weapon called a tintza rifle, which can shoot either a laser blast or a paralyzing electric arc. But look at it this way, wouldn’t you rather have him on your side in a fight?<\/p>\n

\"Gar<\/a>For a space invader of dinosaurian descent, Gar is relatively soft-hearted. While his peers among the Kra are mostly content to consider humans as food items, Gar was the one who realized that exterminating humanity on earth is no better than what happened to the Kra 65 million years ago when the asteroid hit. So, he’s stepped up and gone against his own kind trying to seek peace with “hoonahs,” the Kra term for humans.<\/p>\n

Yes, that’s right, the Kra have a language, which befits any space-faring race. Their language, Kra-naga, is hard for humans to speak or understand, and the same is true for the Kra’s grasp of human-speak. Not only are all the words in the English language foreign to a Kra, but pronunciation can be quite tricky for them too. Given those huge fangs and a lack of lips, Kra have quite a problem with pronouncing the letters B, P, M and W. Try any of those without using your lips. Tough, huh? Add fangs and it gets quite problematic.<\/p>\n

You can learn a lot more about Gar by reading Dinosaur Wars: Earthfall, which is available in Kindle<\/a>, Nook<\/a> and other<\/a> ebook formats. The price can’t be beat, while it lasts: free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a space invader of dinosaurian descent, Gar the Kra is relatively soft-hearted. While his peers among the Kra are content to consider humans as food items, he’s befriended Chase Armstrong and Kit Daniels. Continue reading →<\/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":[9,8,1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinosaur-country","category-from-outta-space","category-uncategorized","tag-dinosaur-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}