{"id":146,"date":"2015-11-30T21:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T21:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/?p=146"},"modified":"2015-11-30T21:17:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T21:17:29","slug":"you-want-fantasy-heres-one-theres-this-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You want fantasy? Here\u2019s one\u2026 There\u2019s this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that\u2019d suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there\u2019s nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds.<br \/>\nAnd what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life. In a universe where it is known that whole galaxies can explode, they think there\u2019s things like \u2018natural justice\u2019 and \u2018destiny\u2019. Some of them even believe in democracy\u2026<br \/>\nI\u2019m a fantasy writer, and even I find it all a bit hard to believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\u201cWhose Fantasy Are You?\u201d (1991), Terry Pratchett.<br \/> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/the-library-and-step-on-it.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">the-library-and-step-on-it<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want fantasy? Here\u2019s one\u2026 There\u2019s this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that\u2019d suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[46,45],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-photography","tag-notbecauseofvictories","tag-terry-pratchett","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}