{"id":9549,"date":"2014-09-10T22:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9549"},"modified":"2014-09-10T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T04:10:25","slug":"the-door-hissed-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-door-hissed-open\/","title":{"rendered":"The door hissed open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heinlein&#8217;s doors famously &#8220;iris&#8221; open, and the doors in my novels &#8220;hiss&#8221; open. That gives us a pretty good idea what it sounds like, but what does it <em>look<\/em> like?<\/p>\n<p>This:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qOSBUU74SHc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That part at the end where he presses the two keys and steps through&#8211;that is almost exactly what I imagine it looks like when one of my characters palms an access panel.<\/p>\n<p>Someday when I&#8217;m a homeowner, I&#8217;m going to install doors like this in every major room in my house. I kid you not. And if I run out of other projects, I&#8217;ll build a standing jacuzzi like the shower units in my novels, with nozzles that blast you from all sides and a drier that blows hot air from the top. <em>That<\/em> is a Youtube video that I would love to see.<\/p>\n<p>Live long and prosper, my friends. May the stars of Earth continually align in your favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heinlein&#8217;s doors famously &#8220;iris&#8221; open, and the doors in my novels &#8220;hiss&#8221; open. That gives us a pretty good idea what it sounds like, but what does it look like? This: That part at the end where he presses the two keys and steps through&#8211;that is almost exactly what I imagine it looks like when&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-door-hissed-open\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The door hissed open<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"Heinlein's doors iris, my doors hiss ... but what does that look like? This!","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":[1],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-9549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-just-for-fun","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2u1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9550,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions\/9550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}