{"id":683,"date":"2017-12-10T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T05:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2017-12-12T23:16:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:16:15","slug":"day-101-getting-deeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/day-101-getting-deeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 101: Getting Deeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 101:<\/p>\n<p>In addition to turning toward the giant mountain (a direction I call &#8220;east&#8221; based on the sunrise) I&#8217;m digging deeper than ever before. The deeper I go, the higher the quality and volume of valuable stone like granite and andesite I&#8217;m hitting. I&#8217;m finding more iron ore, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got two baby chicks following me around as if somehow we&#8217;re going to find a corn cavern or something down in the lower ends of the pit. They&#8217;re much more eager than Bobby is&#8230; Bobby just kinds of lolls about as if to say &#8220;yeah, sure, let me know if there&#8217;s something interesting going on,&#8221; while the two chicks are like &#8220;HEY WHAT IS THAT WHAT ARE YOU DOING HOW ABOUT IF I STAND HERE IN THE WORST PLACE POSSIBLE WHILE YOU DIG?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Babies. Ugh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Among-The-Dead-100.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-701 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/One-Among-The-Dead-100.png?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Line drawing of the artist trying to mine while the chicks stand on the rock the artist is trying to mine. Caption: Optimal position of baby ducken (according to them). 1. on rock I want to hit. 2. 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I&#8217;m finding more iron ore, too. I&#8217;ve got two baby chicks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/day-101-getting-deeper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 101: Getting Deeper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-among-the-dead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-b1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}