{"id":18,"date":"2023-02-09T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T01:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:21","slug":"daucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Daucus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Occasionally, my wife and I go off on worldbuilding tangents that result in new fictitious species. This has previously resulted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=14\">ghost plum<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=20\">spider peacock<\/a>. Another time, someone&#8217;s Reddit handle inspired discussion of the <em>floating ghost carrot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not really a carrot. Nor does it float. It&#8217;s actually a subspecies of ginseng that can temporarily activate latent telekinetic powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that while a lot of people would like to have latent telekinetic powers, very few actually do. Because some of the interested-but-without are wealthy, powerful, and unscrupulous (but I repeat myself), this has resulted in a significant off-the-books genetic research project to identify the source of latent telekinesis. The results have been&#8230; questionable science, at best. And some of those results point to specific organs as the source of said latent telekinesis. Which has, in turn, resulted in a growing black market trade in organs stolen from latent telekinetic persons for transplant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, my wife and I go off on worldbuilding tangents that result in new fictitious species. This has previously resulted in the ghost plum and the spider peacock. Another time, someone&#8217;s Reddit handle inspired discussion of the floating ghost carrot. Well, it&#8217;s not really a carrot. Nor does it float. It&#8217;s actually a subspecies of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[3,70,4],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-setting","tag-cryptobiology","tag-herbalism","tag-shadowrun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}