{"id":199,"date":"2020-06-11T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:05:46","slug":"flying-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Flying Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was younger, I had the idea of a world populated with whales like creatures that captured Hydrogen or Helium in internal sacks and lived their full life in the air… Of course, I’ve read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but these creatures didn’t spontaneously appear than came crashing to the ground after becoming self-realizing.<\/p>\n

Now following this “what if…” thought process, other creatures (built on this same principle) also ruled the air, like flying manatees, flying sting rays, etc. What would life for us simple barely smarter than primates be like?<\/p>\n\n\n

… trying to find the sketch I did of a flying whale, it’s buried in a notebook somewhere…<\/p>\n

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When I was younger, I had the idea of a world populated with whales like creatures that captured Hydrogen or Helium in internal sacks and lived their full life in the air… Of course, I’ve read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but these creatures didn’t spontaneously appear than came crashing to the ground after becoming … Continue reading Flying Whales<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plots","tag-plot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMpv-3d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":494,"url":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=494","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":0},"title":"Nightmoor: The Lady de’Kay","author":"mhuffman","date":"June 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Lady de'Kay is a combination of the old lady (Miss Havisham) in \"Great Expectations\" and the Lady de'Winter of \"The Three Musketeers\". She's a crafty old lady who looked beautiful at one time, but time has taken her toll. The Lady is a widow. Her husband was the first Mayor\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Comics"","block_context":{"text":"Comics","link":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?cat=9"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ghost-small2.jpg?fit=386%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":523,"url":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=523","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":1},"title":"Manatee Watching","author":"mhuffman","date":"January 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Erika and I went to the Orange City\u00a0Blue Spring Manatee Festival. Staring out, I didn't have high hopes for it, but we wanted to do something different this weekend. As a side note, when I see \"farmers' market\", I think produce being raised and sold in lots of booths in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Personal"","block_context":{"text":"Personal","link":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?cat=37"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3223857560_67f9057a17_o.jpg?fit=600%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3223857560_67f9057a17_o.jpg?fit=600%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mouse-network.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3223857560_67f9057a17_o.jpg?fit=600%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}