{"id":540,"date":"2010-01-12T18:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T22:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2010-01-12T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T22:44:23","slug":"mad-doctor-rognvalds-laboratory-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/12\/mad-doctor-rognvalds-laboratory-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Doctor Rognvald&#8217;s Laboratory, in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  style=\"display:block; height:433px; overflow:hidden;text-indent:0px;margin-bottom:12px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/Rognvald_Lab.jpg\" alt=\"Mad Doctor Rognvald's Laboratory\" width=\"500\" height=\"448\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">Here&#8217;s where &#8216;ve been for the last&#8230; oh, I have no idea. It&#8217;s the laboratory of mad Doctor Rognvald, creator of the Toaster With TWO BRAINS. It&#8217;s the second mad scientist&#8217;s lab I&#8217;ve built for this Thrilling Tale. The two are quite different.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">That&#8217;s because Cornelius Zappencackler&#8217;s lab is sort of a pleasant place for tinkering &#8211; one that you or I might  like to work in. Oh, you&#8217;re right &#8211; some of the things he gets up to in there <em>do<\/em> sort of threaten to destroy the planet. But he&#8217;s an affable old gent, and he means well.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Okay. Maybe &quot;well&quot; isn&#8217;t the word I was looking for. But he doesn&#8217;t mean <em>harm<\/em>. It&#8217;s just that sometimes harm happens <em>anyway<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But this! This is a laboratory that you or I might like to tinker in only if we were evil geniuses! This place is a textbook example of the kind of room where you Meddle In Things That Man Was Not Meant To Wot Of!  This is the sort of lab where every now and then you just have to throw your head back and crow: &quot;It&#8217;s ALIIIIVE!&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;ve been having a great time with the glassware and instruments. This is just the point where I&#8217;ve dropped a real light source into the scene so I can get an idea of what to do next; but it&#8217;s well on its way&#8230; it&#8217;s&#8230;. nearly&#8230;. aliiiiive!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">See what I mean?<\/p><br \/><br \/><p>\n<em><strong>Update:<\/strong> the Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual web site is now alive (alive, I tell you!) at <a href=\"http:\/\/thrilling-tales.webomator.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thrilling-tales.webomator.com\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s where &#8216;ve been for the last&#8230; oh, I have no idea. It&#8217;s the laboratory of mad Doctor Rognvald, creator of the Toaster With TWO BRAINS. It&#8217;s the second mad scientist&#8217;s lab I&#8217;ve built for this Thrilling Tale. The two are quite different. That&#8217;s because Cornelius Zappencackler&#8217;s lab is sort of a pleasant place for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-graphics","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}