{"id":332,"date":"2024-05-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2024-05-28T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T23:03:18","slug":"an-alien-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/an-alien-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alien Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, before you read this, this is <em>not <\/em>a continuation of Shelly&#8217;s story. This is about\u2026 well\u2026 a conversation between aliens. Anyway, I hope you like it, because it&#8217;s basically an experiment to see how I like writing in this genre. Also, this is going to be mostly dialogue, like when you&#8217;re watching a TV show or reading a play script. At least, that&#8217;s what I was going for.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Hello, Snorkello.&#8221; One unearthly being says. &#8220;Hello, Norkloma.&#8221; Another one replies. &#8220;How is life on your planet of Yaratona?&#8221; Snorkello asks. &#8220;It is fine. Except for the fact that we are out of paranas, which are shrimp-like bugs that we eat, life is nice.&#8221; Norkloma says cheerfully. Snorkello makes a facial expression that is, I believe, equivalent to a human frown. &#8220;I thought you told me that paranas are mandatory to your success on planet Yaratona?&#8221; Norkloma laughs weirdly. I mean, they are an alien. &#8220;You must have mistranslated my language, because I would never say something of the sort. But enough about Yaratona, I want to hear how things have been going on planet Zentopolous.&#8221; Snorkello frowns even deeper. Actually, it looks more like a smile, because the corners of Snorkello&#8217;s mouth (At least, I think it&#8217;s their mouth,) turn up instead of down like humans. &#8220;Whatever, Zentopolous is doing wonderful. Our young are growing into fine adults, and our elderly are withering so that they can be reborn. Oop! That&#8217;s all the time we have now! Sorry, gotta go!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, before you read this, this is not a continuation of Shelly&#8217;s story. This is about\u2026 well\u2026 a conversation between aliens. Anyway, I hope you like it, because it&#8217;s basically an experiment to see how I like writing in this genre. Also, this is going to be mostly dialogue, like when you&#8217;re watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,18,11],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-carolyn","tag-fiction","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}