{"id":18151,"date":"2020-02-02T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T17:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18151"},"modified":"2020-02-02T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T17:05:01","slug":"terraforming-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2020\/02\/02\/terraforming-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Terraforming Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A year ago, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/10218447681803269\">posted<\/a> this on Facebook:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>There are Cthulhu-related versions of various boardgames; see, for example, Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu.<\/p>\r\n<p>If there\u2019s ever a Cthulhu version of that game about making another planet more livable, I hope they call it <cite>Terrifying Mars<\/cite>.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>And I added a comment suggesting that <i>Terrafying<\/i> would also be a good alternative, and for that matter could be a synonym for <i>Terraforming<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Recently, I\u2019ve been thinking again about what a horror version of <cite>Terraforming Mars<\/cite> would be called, and I ended up with the name <cite>Terrorforming Mars<\/cite>.<\/p>\r\n<p>But regardless of which variation of the first word you prefer, it occurred to me that the second word could also be a pun, if you think of it as a verb instead of a noun: terrifying [people] mars [them].<\/p>\r\n<p>And that led me to realize that that pun works even in the real name of the game: terraforming [a planet] mars [it].<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18154,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18151\/revisions\/18154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}