{"id":361,"date":"2017-12-29T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=361"},"modified":"2017-12-29T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T17:25:00","slug":"quotidian-superpowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2017\/12\/29\/quotidian-superpowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotidian superpowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_1n\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _22jv _3576\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s game: favorite practical superpower.<\/p>\n<p>The rules: name a superpower that you would love to have and that make your life (or someone&#8217;s life) immensely easier, but which would be boring to read about or watch on TV.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carl.b.sachs\/posts\/10159772019905253\">Facebook prompt<\/a> from Carl Sachs.<span id='easy-footnote-1-361' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2017\/12\/29\/quotidian-superpowers\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-361' title='I&amp;#8217;m not sure what permissions he set for it, so I won&amp;#8217;t echo other peoples&amp;#8217; responses.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> I gave several answers, most inspired by minor abilities of old GURPS characters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">having no need for sleep<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">the ability to be comfortable at any temperature that an ordinary human could survive<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>a<span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">n aura which makes the environment around you cleaner and better organized<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>t<span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">he ability to ask &#8220;Where is the bathroom?&#8221; and understand the reply in any possible language<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\">the ability to utter a monosyllable and have the listener hear it as satisfying and attentive smalltalk<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s game: favorite practical superpower. The rules: name a superpower that you would love to have and that make your life (or someone&#8217;s life) immensely easier, but which would be boring to read about or watch on TV. This is a Facebook prompt from Carl Sachs. I gave several answers, most inspired by minor abilities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2017\/12\/29\/quotidian-superpowers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quotidian superpowers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-cetera"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-5P","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}