{"id":1038,"date":"2017-06-21T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2017-06-21T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:40:36","slug":"the-muse-plagues-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/the-muse-plagues-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muse Plagues Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>From a newsgroup post dated December 16, 2009:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s another idea I didn&#8217;t need &#8212; suppose there&#8217;s a secret government project that&#8217;s opened portals to other realities, maybe on purpose, maybe accidentally.  The other realities are inhabited by humans, or at least creatures indistinguishable from humans, who appear to have a lower tech level than ours &#8212; or at least a <i>different<\/i> tech level.<\/p>\n<p>Our guys want to know what&#8217;s going on in these other worlds, but they don&#8217;t want to interfere, they don&#8217;t want to start any wars, and they&#8217;re not ready to make any direct, open contact; for one thing, they want to know <i>who<\/i> they should contact.  Who are the good guys over there?  Who are the bad guys?  Who&#8217;s gonna be trouble?<\/p>\n<p>These are other realities &#8212; are the laws of physics the same?  Close enough for humans to exist, but is everything the same?<\/p>\n<p>Someone gets sent in to scout.  This isn&#8217;t something you can trust to civilian contractors, and it&#8217;s not really the military&#8217;s job, and we aren&#8217;t ready for the State Department, so the CIA gets the call.<\/p>\n<p>So we have a 21st-century CIA agent trying to blend in in a fantasy world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a newsgroup post dated December 16, 2009: And here&#8217;s another idea I didn&#8217;t need &#8212; suppose there&#8217;s a secret government project that&#8217;s opened portals to other realities, maybe on purpose, maybe accidentally. The other realities are inhabited by humans, or at least creatures indistinguishable from humans, who appear to have a lower tech level&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/the-muse-plagues-me-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}