{"id":3507,"date":"2020-12-02T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2020-10-11T23:01:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T03:01:16","slug":"day-784-a-light-in-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/day-784-a-light-in-the-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 784: A light in the darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 784:<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I dig through a wall and see a cavern or chasm&#8230; but it&#8217;s nothing but darkness. Or worse, darkness and monsters.<\/p>\n<p>On the days when it&#8217;s darkness and monsters, honestly, it can be hard to decide to dig through another wall.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I dig through a wall and see light.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes that&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve dug back out into the outside world, and that can be a bit disconcerting&#8230; but I&#8217;m deep enough in the ground under a forest that if I hit outside world right now it&#8217;ll prove this planetesimal is flat.<\/p>\n<p>Since science has pretty much proven that flat planetesimals don&#8217;t spin well and tend to break up, well, that wouldn&#8217;t bode well for me.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, I&#8217;m the source of the light. Or rather, past me is. I&#8217;ll look across the chasm and see one of my own torches and think, &#8220;well, I&#8217;ve lived this long, and I&#8217;ve been here before, so I&#8217;m likely to live through this again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a small comfort, but a comfort anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day784.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3519\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day784.png?resize=525%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A mostly-black photo with a barely-visible opening on the other side of a cavern, where a torch lights the stone walls.\" width=\"525\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day784.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day784.png?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day784.png?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day784.png?resize=1024%2C640&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day784.png?w=1575&amp;ssl=1 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 784: Sometimes I dig through a wall and see a cavern or chasm&#8230; but it&#8217;s nothing but darkness. Or worse, darkness and monsters. On the days when it&#8217;s darkness and monsters, honestly, it can be hard to decide to dig through another wall. Sometimes I dig through a wall and see light. 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