{"id":436,"date":"2003-12-18T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2010-07-09T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T05:25:14","slug":"centaurs-in-space-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/18\/centaurs-in-space-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Centaurs In Space II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the translation of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/articles\/\">articles<\/a>&#8221; to modern blog entries&#8230; Part II of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/articles\/article-0030.html\">Article 30<\/a> from December 18, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Second in the series of &#8220;Centaurs in Space&#8221;, with text drawn from my short story &#8220;Death Wish&#8221; and images drawn from my sequential adaptation of the same story.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\"> <strong><font face=\"arial,helvetica\" align=\"center\" size=\"3\">Death Wish<\/font><\/strong><br \/> by Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr. <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p> &#8230;The mission started well enough: a thousand light years in a trusty B4 shuttle,  charting a star factory trailing the shock wave of the Perseus spiral arm.   Two days out, and the routine was starting to settle in: dust clouds curdled here,  disks of collapsing gas there, and blue supergiants everywhere, burning the candles  at both ends.<\/p>\n<p> It looked to be an uneventful jaunt, and she was already getting an itch to  see her husband back on the Dragonfire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"465\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/taurspace-2.jpg\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the translation of &#8220;articles&#8221; to modern blog entries&#8230; Part II of Article 30 from December 18, 2003. Second in the series of &#8220;Centaurs in Space&#8221;, with text drawn from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,4,50],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-centaurs","tag-dragon-writers","tag-reblogging","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}