{"id":6810,"date":"2016-04-12T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2016-04-12T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T19:16:08","slug":"spiritual-propulsion-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/?p=6810","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Propulsion Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='et-dropcap' style=\"font-size: 48px; color: #000000;\">I<\/span>t is surprisingly easy to separate lab rats into competing ninja clans and encourage them into a subtle all-out war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just like the anime,\u201d sighs one of Professor Gardner\u2019s students, in wonder.<\/p>\n<p>A lab rat spins through ninja space in a burst of red. It reappears, unexpectedly early, halfway across the cage, transfixed by a whisker grown into a spear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat wasn\u2019t like the anime,\u201d another student argues. \u201cWhisker chakra is <em>supposed<\/em> to be incompatible with ninja-space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was probably a special skill!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strange-Encounter-Gardner-1000.png\">Professor Gardner<\/a> clears his throat, reminding the students that they shouldn\u2019t be theorizing on whether the ongoing rat ninja war is using legitimate ninjutsu or is a control group of specially-trained rat actors with extensive Chinese opera experience until after the data collection portion of the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense,\u201d Lisa says. She\u2019s on one of the three-person task teams. \u201cThe GPS is just cutting completely out in ninja space. Where are they <em>going?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One day, if they crack the secret&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>One day, it might be <em>his<\/em> students who solve it; who find it, and can harness it with science, and build for the first time a true ninja drive.<\/p>\n<p>For now&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might want to start,\u201d he says, frowning a little because of something unexpected, \u201cby figuring out where that one picked up its new hat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: all shinobi rats are highly-trained volunteers who achieved sentience after watching too many episodes of \u201cWhisker Ninjas.\u201d Chinese opera rats are trained in accordance with the Sh\u01d4bi\u0101o h\u00f2uw\u00e8i protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>t is surprisingly easy to separate lab rats into competing ninja clans and encourage them into a subtle all-out war. \u201cIt\u2019s just like the anime,\u201d sighs one of Professor Gardner\u2019s students, in wonder. A lab rat spins through ninja space in a burst of red. It reappears, unexpectedly early, halfway across the cage, transfixed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"series":[48],"class_list":["post-6810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-encounters","series-strange-encounters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Strange-Encounter-Gardner-1000.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810","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=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6812,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions\/6812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}