{"id":26179,"date":"2020-12-03T19:59:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=26179"},"modified":"2020-12-03T19:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:59:50","slug":"qntm-time-machines-are-insanely-powerful-devices-for-breaking-stories-and-we-have-to-limit-that-power-one-way-or-another-the-rules-of-time-travel-must-be-totally-internally-consistent-within-the-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=26179","title":{"rendered":"@qntm &#8220;Time machines are insanely powerful devices for breaking stories and we have to limit that power one way or another! The rules of time travel must be totally internally consistent within the confines a single episode. This is because fiction needs to make sense.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Time machines are insanely powerful devices for breaking stories and we have to limit that power one way or another!<br \/>The rules of time travel must be totally internally consistent within the confines a single episode. This is because fiction needs to make sense.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1334587894816772098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>December 03, 2020 at 02:58PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Time machines are insanely powerful devices for breaking stories and we have to limit that power one way or another!The rules of time travel must be totally internally consistent within the confines a single episode. This is because fiction needs to make sense.&quot; &mdash; Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) December 3, 2020 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers December &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=26179\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@qntm &#8220;Time machines are insanely powerful devices for breaking stories and we have to limit that power one way or another! The rules of time travel must be totally internally consistent within the confines a single episode. This is because fiction needs to make sense.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26180,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26179\/revisions\/26180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26179"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=26179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}