{"id":218,"date":"2008-02-27T00:21:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T05:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-02-27T00:22:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T05:22:38","slug":"three-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Three Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 &#8211; The survivors have made an airport their base of operations.  Do the have a plane?  What about a pilot?  I&#8217;m not talking about anything big that would allow for escape, but a little two seat prop plane type deal.  It could be used to keep track of zombie movements and natural resources.  I would have just written a story, but I feel that this would have consequences for the zone that are too far reaching for me to have made the decision unilaterally<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Zombie shelf life.  I know that the zombies we are dealing with right now have a slow rate of decomposition due to the Solanum.  How slow is slow?  Are we talking a year, two years, ten?<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Zombie dentition.  The human dental pattern was developed for a generalist and omnivorous animal.  How does that translate to zombies?  Human teeth are small in size and lack roots deep enough to allow them to sustain heavy impacts.  There is a reason we only use our teeth to chew food after we have first prepared it.  Try bitting into a raw steak and trashing it as hard as you can with your hands.  We also lack any kind of dental battery that would allow us to replace missing teeth. My point is that if you have all these former humans running around biting still living humans and animals they would soon become toothless and no one is afraid of a zombie that needs dentures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WATCH OUT!  THEY MIGHT GUM YOU TO DEATH!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 &#8211; The survivors have made an airport their base of operations. Do the have a plane? What about a pilot? I&#8217;m not talking about anything big that would allow for escape, but a little two seat prop plane type deal. It could be used to keep track of zombie movements and natural resources. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pemv8-3w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zyracuse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}