{"id":906,"date":"2017-10-31T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=906"},"modified":"2017-10-31T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:00:02","slug":"just-pretend-youre-one-of-them-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Just Pretend You&#8217;re One of Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/just-pretend-image-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-139\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/just-pretend-image-02-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/just-pretend-image-02-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/just-pretend-image-02-1024x805.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Captain&#8217;s Log: Oct. 31, 2017, 4:16 pm. Earth time.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my&#8230;this is going to be SO easy!\u00a0 All that hard work preparing costumes and disguises for this mission&#8230;..completely unnecessary.\u00a0 Just look at this place.\u00a0 The natives here are CRAZY!\u00a0 All day since we landed they&#8217;ve been running around dressed up in outrageous costumes, as monsters and zombies and hookers and well&#8230;even aliens.\u00a0 I think we&#8217;re gonna fit in here, just fine.\u00a0 But hooo-boy, when I get back home, I&#8217;m going to tear the advanced team a new one.\u00a0 Their intelligence reports painted such a boring, conservative picture of this species&#8230;SHEEESH, were they wrong!?\u00a0 Why, just now I saw a tiny little demon girl approaching our safe-house door&#8230;..hang on&#8230;&#8217;DING&#8212;DONG!&#8217;&#8230;..&#8221;Trick or treat!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>***John&#8217;s illustration was originally published in the October 2014\u00a0issue of Analog Magazine for a story by Joyce and Stanley Schmidt.\u00a0 Stan is an old friend and was the editor of Analog for about 3 decades.\u00a0 You can find their orig. story in the archives at analogsf.com.\u00a0 This was originally posted on Halloween in\u00a02015 (my 4th post ever), but most of you will have missed it.\u00a0\u00a0 Happy Halloween! \u00a0-Marsha\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Captain&#8217;s Log: Oct. 31, 2017, 4:16 pm. Earth time. Oh my&#8230;this is going to be SO easy!\u00a0 All that hard work preparing costumes and disguises for this mission&#8230;..completely unnecessary.\u00a0 Just look at this place.\u00a0 The natives here are CRAZY!\u00a0 All day since we landed they&#8217;ve been running around dressed up in outrageous costumes, as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=906\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Pretend You&#8217;re One of Them<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[150,109,124],"tags":[79,56,85,176,82,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}