{"id":1297,"date":"2011-06-21T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2011-06-21T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:01:34","slug":"thrilling-tales-an-airship-a-quandary-and-a-resolution-to-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/21\/thrilling-tales-an-airship-a-quandary-and-a-resolution-to-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrilling Tales: an airship, a quandary, and a resolution to cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/thrilling_tales_sailing_airship.jpg\" alt=\"An Airship Sailing in the Future That Never Was\" width=\"501\" height=\"296\">\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;margin-top:12px;\">\n<p align=\"left\">As you see, our friend Osgood Finnegan is sailing off in his airship and that, I have decided, is my cue to switch back to my work on <em>The Toaster With TWO Brains.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I haven&#8217;t completely filled the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/the-lair-of-the-clockwork-book\/001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clockwork Book<\/a><\/em> buffer &#8211; I&#8217;m constantly banging my head against Zeno&#8217;s paradox, here &#8211; but in order to do the next two illustrations (thereby to catch up) I&#8217;d have to create two new characters. Due to the length of time I&#8217;d spend on <em>that,<\/em> by the time I&#8217;d &quot;caught up&quot; I wouldn&#8217;t, in fact, have caught up. I&#8217;d need to do several more illustrations to make up that time in filling my ever-dwindling buffer of complete illustrations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It&#8217;s just bad luck, really. It&#8217;s got to do with what I&#8217;d need to build <em>right now<\/em>. Over time the hours would average out, I&#8217;d be happily caught up in all actuality&#8230; while the birds sang, and the bees buzzed, and Osgood&#8217;s airship would sail on with its favorable wind.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But I&#8217;m tired of chasing the buffer. I&#8217;m going to swap over to my other story while I&#8217;m still two pictures short, and just take a week off <em>The Toaster With TWO BRAINS<\/em> at the end of its part of the schedule.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">If I hadn&#8217;t had to model the airship I&#8217;d have been back on track this past weekend: but after <em>that<\/em>, the two new characters are just too much to bear.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This is my decree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you see, our friend Osgood Finnegan is sailing off in his airship and that, I have decided, is my cue to switch back to my work on The Toaster With TWO Brains. I haven&#8217;t completely filled the Clockwork Book buffer &#8211; I&#8217;m constantly banging my head against Zeno&#8217;s paradox, here &#8211; but in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}