{"id":2893,"date":"2012-12-30T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2016-04-07T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T22:59:15","slug":"3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; 3 &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='et-dropcap' style=\"font-size: 48px; color: #9D2727;\">T<\/span>he rock-paper-scissors-playing robot Navvy Jim plays rock-paper-scissors with Emily. Or at least, he tries.<\/p>\n<p>He counts: <i>one. Two. Three.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He counts!<\/p>\n<p>With each count he lowers his hand. On the final count he tries to throw rock, paper, or scissors. He cannot. His arm creaks and his ears shed sparks instead.<\/p>\n<p>Emily is making an absurd gesture. It is like a claw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTiger\u2019s claw beats indecision!\u201d she declares.<\/p>\n<p>Navvy Jim\u2019s eyes glow red dissatisfaction. \u201cThat is not legitimate,\u201d he says. \u201cLet us try again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK!\u201d says Emily, cheerfully.<\/p>\n<p>He lifts his fist. He strikes it through the air, three times. On the third try he sparks again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, man,\u201d she says. \u201cIndecision beats whale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily,\u201d says Navvy Jim, plaintively. \u201cI am a rock-paper-scissors playing robot. You cannot keep doing this to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he rock-paper-scissors-playing robot Navvy Jim plays rock-paper-scissors with Emily. Or at least, he tries. He counts: one. Two. Three. He counts! With each count he lowers his hand. On the final count he tries to throw rock, paper, or scissors. He cannot. His arm creaks and his ears shed sparks instead. Emily is making an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-2893","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\/Navvy_in_Chains.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}