Tom tries to bring a dead otter back to life.<\/p>\n
Result: failure!<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy is this dead otter so unresponsive?\u201d he demands, waving it in the face of his homeroom teacher.<\/p>\n
After that he does not even have<\/em> a dead otter any more.<\/p>\n He is head boy of the House of Dreams at the Lethal Magnet School for Wayward Youth. He commands a miraculous hat. But he can\u2019t just make happy endings by wishing them. He can\u2019t make the world a happy and glorious place.<\/p>\n He enacts detention fitfully.<\/p>\n He seethes against the confines of his existence.<\/p>\n You can\u2019t just make the world better <\/em>through science \u2014<\/p>\n \u201cOr \u2014 can I?\u201d asks the scientist, Tom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom tries to bring a dead otter back to life. Result: failure! \u201cWhy is this dead otter so unresponsive?\u201d he demands, waving it in the face of his homeroom teacher. After that he does not even have a dead otter any more. He is head boy of the House of Dreams at the Lethal Magnet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-3","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Hat_1_blankbg.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","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=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6082,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/6082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}