{"id":7504,"date":"2013-07-11T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/07\/11\/an-unmarked-package-arrives-on-hakubas-doorstep\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T01:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T01:26:00","slug":"an-unmarked-package-arrives-on-hakubas-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/07\/11\/an-unmarked-package-arrives-on-hakubas-doorstep\/","title":{"rendered":"An unmarked package arrives on Hakuba&#8217;s doorstep. A letter is attached. &#8220;Mr. Hakuba,&#8221; it reads. &#8220;While excavating some ruins in Wales, we have uncovered a strange item. With your permission, we would appreciate it if you could examine it and send us back the results. Signed,&#8221; and here the signature was blurred, the ink having rubbed off during transit and poor handling. Inside was a strange item, looking somewhat like an emu or dinosaur egg."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/8f8dd6bb7a83d3a29cb70374b1547025\/tumblr_inline_mpqzqyT6K81rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, that\u2019s\u2026 somewhat unusual. And you\u2019re not sure who sent it, Baaya?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No, sir\u2026 it was on the doorstep this afternoon. Apparently, there was no signature required.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The return information is missing, too\u2026 That\u2019s troubling. I wasn\u2019t expecting anything.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s a good thing that you\u2019re a detective, or that might be a problem.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/8250658dc04f2aaf25d27e631b5de86f\/tumblr_inline_mpqztk0LOm1rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you, Baaya.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hakuba brought the box to his bedroom and opened it at his desk. \u201cAn egg? How peculiar.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He removed it from the box and handled it gently, inspecting it from top to bottom with interest. \u201cVery curious\u2026\u201d It didn\u2019t appear to be a real egg, at least not any that he was familiar with, so he set it upon his desk to act as a rather large paperweight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/bd043feed21876ed7346452b4525c619\/tumblr_inline_mpr024mfSi1qz4rgp.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>He\u2019d need to get a stand for it to prevent it from rolling off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Well, that\u2019s\u2026 somewhat unusual. And you\u2019re not sure who sent it, Baaya?&rdquo; &ldquo;No, sir\u2026 it was on the doorstep this afternoon. Apparently, there was no signature required.&rdquo; &ldquo;The return information is missing, too\u2026 That\u2019s troubling. I wasn\u2019t expecting anything.&rdquo; &ldquo;It\u2019s a good thing that you\u2019re a detective, or that might be a problem.&rdquo; &ldquo;Thank you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,456,6394,195,76,6395],"class_list":["post-7504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anonymous","tag-clue","tag-egg","tag-hakuba-answers","tag-ic","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}