{"id":1905,"date":"2018-03-25T13:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2018-03-25T13:48:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T17:48:04","slug":"writing-space-opera-is-surprisingly-intricate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"(writing) Space opera is surprisingly intricate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wildspace_explorer__spelljammer__by_sdavis75-d5b673f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1906\" src=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wildspace_explorer__spelljammer__by_sdavis75-d5b673f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1854\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wildspace_explorer__spelljammer__by_sdavis75-d5b673f.jpg 1854w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wildspace_explorer__spelljammer__by_sdavis75-d5b673f-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wildspace_explorer__spelljammer__by_sdavis75-d5b673f-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wildspace_explorer__spelljammer__by_sdavis75-d5b673f-768x375.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wildspace_explorer__spelljammer__by_sdavis75-d5b673f-1024x500.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1854px) 100vw, 1854px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sdavis75.deviantart.com\/art\/Wildspace-Explorer-Spelljammer-321095787\">Art by Deviant Artist sdavis75<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on Seeds again today, and I found this lovely piece of art to inspire me. While it&#8217;s not precisely what\u00a0<em>The Frontier<\/em> looks like, but it&#8217;s very close, and I can see this beauty sailing the Cosmic Web. Today was a lot of figuring out the gods and magic and the history of the empire &#8211; turns out that they&#8217;re refugees from Earth (I know, shocking, right?) but that their gods are the Greek Gods. Who decided after that whole Trojan War debacle that humans really shouldn&#8217;t have the gods interfering in anything. But they&#8217;ve left Essences behind, and the humans can use that to do all sorts of fascinating things.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more later, but right now, I&#8217;m off to look at some things in the studio. I&#8217;m doing my morning pages again, and making all sorts of plans for Ravencon. Will I see you in Richmond in April?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Art by Deviant Artist sdavis75 &nbsp; I&#8217;m working on Seeds again today, and I found this lovely piece of art to inspire me. While it&#8217;s not precisely what\u00a0The Frontier looks like, but it&#8217;s very close, and I can see this beauty sailing the Cosmic Web. Today was a lot of figuring out the gods &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1905\">>>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":[108,21],"tags":[109,110],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acorn","category-con-schedule","tag-acorn","tag-con-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}