{"id":676,"date":"2017-08-21T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=676"},"modified":"2017-08-21T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T16:40:07","slug":"work-in-progress-the-partial-observer-a-k-a-the-research-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2017\/08\/21\/work-in-progress-the-partial-observer-a-k-a-the-research-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Work in Progress:  The Partial Observer, a.k.a. The Research Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time looked at:  8\/7\/14<\/p>\n<p>Last actual wordage added:   8\/7\/14<\/p>\n<p>Pages added, 8\/7\/14:  1<\/p>\n<p>Current page count:  6<\/p>\n<p>Estimated final page count:  300-350.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline:  None.  Purely speculative.<\/p>\n<p>Comments:   Jeret&#8217;s on his way back to his ship, but may not get there right away.<\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;m probably going to retitle this because I don&#8217;t think people immediately pick up that the original was a play on &#8220;impartial observer.&#8221;  For those of you who don&#8217;t remember this story &#8212; i.e., everybody but me &#8212; it&#8217;s intended to be an old-fashioned space opera; the protagonist&#8217;s job is to explore other inhabited worlds to see whether they have any customs or inventions that might be worth copying, and in doing this he stumbles across A Threat to the Galaxy.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time looked at: 8\/7\/14 Last actual wordage added: 8\/7\/14 Pages added, 8\/7\/14: 1 Current page count: 6 Estimated final page count: 300-350. Deadline: None. Purely speculative. Comments: Jeret&#8217;s on his way back to his ship, but may not get there right away. I&#8217;m probably going to retitle this because I don&#8217;t think people immediately&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2017\/08\/21\/work-in-progress-the-partial-observer-a-k-a-the-research-agent\/\">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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}