Martin hires it from the Gettier goat-impersonation service.<\/p>\n
It is a creature, presenting as a goat.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you talk?\u201d Martin asks it.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cOoh! Ooh!\u201d says Jane. She waves a hand around. Eventually Martin gives in and calls on her. She points at the creature. \u201cCan you dance?\u201d<\/p>\n
The impersonator chews thoughtfully on a can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a no!\u201d says Jane.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoats can\u2019t tell the difference,\u201d says Martin. \u201cIt probably thinks that it\u2019s bacon.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHmm,\u201d says Jane. \u201cCan you tell the difference?\u201d she asks.<\/p>\n
The creature bleats. It bumps its head against Jane. It wanders off to do other recycling, or, possibly, the laundry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Martin hires it from the Gettier goat-impersonation service. It is a creature, presenting as a goat. \u201cCan you talk?\u201d Martin asks it. It doesn\u2019t answer. \u201cOoh! Ooh!\u201d says Jane. She waves a hand around. Eventually Martin gives in and calls on her. She points at the creature. \u201cCan you dance?\u201d The impersonator chews thoughtfully on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-3","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Jane_Martin_Goat.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6541,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/6541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}