{"id":88,"date":"2009-01-13T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2009-01-13T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T20:30:19","slug":"notes-on-things-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Notes on things magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topology counts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Magically transformed items will have the same number as the original.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Who knew that topology would be a useful mathematical concept in writing fantasy?)<\/p>\n<p>Talking jewelry is a PITA, perhaps especially if no one else can hear it.\u00a0\u00a0 Magic jewels always have their dangers, but the ones that try to convince you to do something&#8230;especially not easy to live with.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re trying to open a magically locked door and one of your command words or spells causes a key to materialize and the door to unlock, this does not mean you have the situation under control.<\/p>\n<p>Magic is dangerous but so are completely nonmagical ordinary objects like ropes, weights, and stones, if arranged by someone with malice in mind.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not what you don&#8217;t know&#8230;it&#8217;s what you think you know that isn&#8217;t so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topology counts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Magically transformed items will have the same number as the original.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Who knew that topology would be a useful mathematical concept in writing fantasy?) Talking jewelry is a PITA, perhaps especially if no one else can hear it.\u00a0\u00a0 Magic jewels always have their dangers, but the ones that try to convince you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","tag-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}