There was a lot of bluffing involved in our Contact mission at Betelgeuse.\u00a0 The birds saw our ship deftly evade almost all of their weapons fire.\u00a0 We never fired back so they didn\u2019t see our weapons in action.\u00a0 Thank God.\u00a0 If they\u2019d seen that scout ship\u2019s weapons in action they might have realized that they actually had a better tech base than we did.\u00a0 They never thought twice about all the \u201ccheap toys\u201d our team picked up on planet.\u00a0 For cultural study of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There was a lot of bluffing involved in our Contact mission at Betelgeuse.\u00a0 The birds saw our ship deftly evade almost all of their weapons fire.\u00a0 We never fired back so they didn\u2019t see our weapons in action.\u00a0 Thank God.\u00a0[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","category-races_of_humanity","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-jack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6189,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/6189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}