{"id":22030,"date":"2018-02-01T19:31:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/So-it-turns-out-that-if-you-really-understand-what-the-alchemists-were-doing-they-were-doing-some-fairly"},"modified":"2018-02-01T19:31:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:31:34","slug":"so-it-turns-out-that-if-you-really-understand-what-the-alchemists-were-doing-they-were-doing-some-fairly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/02\/01\/so-it-turns-out-that-if-you-really-understand-what-the-alchemists-were-doing-they-were-doing-some-fairly\/","title":{"rendered":"So it turns out that, if you really understand what the alchemists were doing, they were doing some fairly&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>So it turns out that, if you really understand what the alchemists were doing, they were doing some fairly remarkable stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their recipes were encoded in symbolism, which makes them a challenge to reconstruct. (I have a Gryphon Clerks novel planned in which the instructions for making a kind of bioengineered polymer are encoded in Elvish poetry.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Via a private share off G+. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wapo.st\/2DLrc2e?tid=ss_gp&amp;utm_term=.491d09cc0b0f\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/wapo.st\/2DLrc2e?tid=ss_gp&amp;utm_term=.491d09cc0b0f<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        So it turns out that, if you really understand what the alchemists were doing, they were doing some fairly&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/02\/01\/so-it-turns-out-that-if-you-really-understand-what-the-alchemists-were-doing-they-were-doing-some-fairly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}