{"id":481,"date":"2009-02-18T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2009-02-18T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T17:09:06","slug":"cat-1-dragon-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Cat 1, Dragon 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cordwainer Smith wrote a well-known science fiction short story titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/scifipedia.scifi.com\/index.php\/The_Game_of_Rat_and_Dragon\">The Game of Rat and Dragon<\/a>,&#8221; in which telepaths teamed with cats to protect spaceships from space-based predators.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between cats and dragons appears to have been taken from life.<\/p>\n<p>I have a dragon skull that I had on display in my living room. It&#8217;s a cast resin sculpture that I picked up some years ago. It was on a high shelf on my entertainment center, where I figured it would be safe.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/bendreth.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/02\/skull.JPG' title='Dragon skull'><img src='https:\/\/bendreth.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/02\/skull.JPG' alt='Dragon skull' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The missing small horn was with the skull; the missing large horn wasn&#8217;t. I believe that it&#8217;s under the entertainment center, which makes it pretty inaccessible. Guess I won&#8217;t be gluing that back anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cordwainer Smith wrote a well-known science fiction short story titled, &#8220;The Game of Rat and Dragon,&#8221; in which telepaths teamed with cats to protect spaceships from space-based predators. The relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toys","category-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}