{"id":437,"date":"2009-10-02T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2009-10-02T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T19:16:08","slug":"the-curious-circumstance-of-the-rocket-that-devolved-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/02\/the-curious-circumstance-of-the-rocket-that-devolved-in-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Circumstance of the Rocket that Devolved in the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=57964#more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/tor_airship.gif\" alt=\"TOR Books' Steampunk logo\" width=\"284\" height=\"207\" border=\"0\" style=\"float:right;margin:8px;margin-right:-17px;\"><\/a>The unshaven, rum-addled crew* over at TOR Books&#8217; web site has declared that October shall be a month of Steampunk. And so shall it be, inasmuch as anything having to do with tor.com is concerned, anyway.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But that as interesting as that may be, it&#8217;s not what I enjoyed most today at their site.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In order to celebrate the Month of Steampunk they restyled their already retro rocket logo to suit &#8211; and then posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=57964#more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an article showing the concepts and describing their process<\/a> of narrowing down from way too many neat ideas to the one neat idea they really needed. I had a great time wandering through that process even though &quot;iterate&quot; is a word I learned to dread in my long years as an indentured servant.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The art&#8217;s by Gregory Manchess; art direction by Irene Gallo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=57964#more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>&#8216;s your chance to thrill at the fighter planes, the finnified rockets, and the various airships that they didn&#8217;t use. Neat! Or, you know, edifyingly uplifting!<br \/><br \/>*<em>I mean that in the best possible way, you know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unshaven, rum-addled crew* over at TOR Books&#8217; web site has declared that October shall be a month of Steampunk. And so shall it be, inasmuch as anything having to do with tor.com is concerned, anyway. But that as interesting as that may be, it&#8217;s not what I enjoyed most today at their site. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}