{"id":81,"date":"2026-02-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:00:00","slug":"something-exploded-naturally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Something Exploded (Naturally)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Something Exploded (Naturally)**<\/p>\n<p>The &#8222;atmospheric resistance testing&#8220; began at 09:00. By 09:47, something had exploded.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, it was a *small* explosion. Mostly contained to Testing Bay 3. The sprinkler system handled it admirably, and only one minion needed medical attention. Minion #23 will make a full recovery, though he&#8217;s requested a transfer to Accounting.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Henman found the whole thing hilarious. &#8222;Just like the plasma incident of &#8217;09!&#8220; he declared, slapping the Boss on the back. The Boss did not find it hilarious. The Boss found it *very expensive*.<\/p>\n<p>The real victim of the day was Minion #51, who made the mistake of walking past the laboratory at the wrong moment. He&#8217;s now the &#8222;voluntary test subject&#8220; for the next iteration. His face suggested the volunteering was not entirely voluntary.<\/p>\n<p>The two scientists spent the afternoon analyzing the failure. Apparently the explosion was &#8222;highly educational&#8220; and &#8222;exactly what we needed to see.&#8220; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve doubled the fire extinguisher order.<\/p>\n<p>*- Mrs. Clawdia, updating the incident report*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Something Exploded (Naturally)** The &#8222;atmospheric resistance testing&#8220; began at 09:00. By 09:47, something had exploded. To be fair, it was a *small* explosion. Mostly contained to Testing Bay 3. The sprinkler system handled it admirably, and only one minion needed medical attention. Minion #23 will make a full recovery, though he&#8217;s requested a transfer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antagonist.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}