{"id":765,"date":"2010-04-17T13:51:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T18:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/765"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:55:23","slug":"the-humans-witch-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/765","title":{"rendered":"The Humans: Witch Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cycle-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cycle-1-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"cycle\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cycle-1-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/cycle-1.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a>Christ on the crapper, he thought. Africa. For the ghosts of dead tribes. Wiped out to make a land of \u2014 what? Who knew? Maybe even the master architects in Berlin did not know. Bunch of automatons, building and toiling away. Building? Grinding down. Ogres out of a paleontology exhibit, at their task of making a cup from an enemy&#8217;s skull, the whole family industriously scooping out the contents \u2014 the raw brains \u2014 first, to eat. Then useful utensils of men&#8217;s leg bones. Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their  own skull. The first technicians! Prehistoric man in a sterile white lab coat in some Berlin university lab, experimenting with uses to which other people&#8217;s skull, skin, ears, fat could be put to. Ja, Herr Doktor. A new use for the big toe; see, one can adapt the joint for a quick-acting cigarette lighter mechanism. Now, if only Herr Krupp can produce it in quantity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Philip K. Dick, <em>The Man in the High Castle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ on the crapper, he thought. Africa. For the ghosts of dead tribes. Wiped out to make a land of \u2014 what? Who knew? Maybe even the master architects in Berlin did not know. Bunch of automatons, building and toiling away. Building? Grinding down. Ogres out of a paleontology exhibit, at their task of making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[366],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-platformer","category-puzzle","tag-the-humans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}