{"id":6162,"date":"2018-09-27T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2018-09-27T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T19:55:23","slug":"an-akum-from-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2018\/an-akum-from-far-away","title":{"rendered":"An Akum from Far Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The \u201cakum\u201d are the \u201chuge birds, toothy of maw\u201d that live far to the north of the center of the world, ridden by nomadic warrior tribes. This one is distinct, though: it has a beak like the toothless birds, but has fingers like the akum. She\u2019s wild, and about the size of a modern horse. The akum-rider tribes might see these as unnameable, but I bet there are a people who considers them prize mounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"2400\" src=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1224E559-A291-470B-A671-A06195B7E10C.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1224E559-A291-470B-A671-A06195B7E10C.jpeg 1800w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1224E559-A291-470B-A671-A06195B7E10C-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1224E559-A291-470B-A671-A06195B7E10C-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1224E559-A291-470B-A671-A06195B7E10C-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/1224E559-A291-470B-A671-A06195B7E10C-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>She apparently loves chasing giant dragonflies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"The only Solarpunk RPG I've ever seen.\" class=\"wp-image-3360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image.png 1080w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-768x149.png 768w, https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-1024x198.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>The biosphere of 400+ years from now will be quite different. Might we see giant, feral chickens regaining their dinosaur\u00a0dignity?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cakum\u201d are the \u201chuge birds, toothy of maw\u201d that live far to the north of the center of the world, ridden by nomadic warrior tribes. This one is distinct, though: it has a beak like the toothless birds, but has fingers like the akum. She\u2019s wild, and about the size of a modern horse. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2018\/an-akum-from-far-away\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Akum from Far Away&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":6164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6165,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions\/6165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}