{"id":573884348,"date":"2013-01-06T16:42:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T22:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884348"},"modified":"2023-09-24T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:17:59","slug":"catching-up-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/01\/06\/catching-up-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly extra photos post! Now with 45 percent more cat.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s helping me do a bit of research. You&#8217;ll see some of her hard work here in the next few days:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan06.jpg\" alt=\"Allie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When she saw the preview for the upcoming Star Trek The Yankee asked me if this all constitutes a re-launch. I had to explain the differences, and the curious nature of fandom, where people will accept a Batman relaunch, but the fans &#8212; often the same folks &#8212; wouldn&#8217;t allow that for Trek. So I had to explain how the previous movie altered the timeline, and the speculation about who Benedict Cumberbatch is playing. I explained a bit of Gary Mitchell. I explained the premise behind the Eugenics Wars and Khan. I did not name Ceti Alpha V. I didn&#8217;t want her to think I was a nerd who knew all the planet names. (I don&#8217;t, really.) <\/p>\n<p>And then I drew this simple chronological history of Trek. You&#8217;re welcome:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan07.jpg\" alt=\"Trek\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One logo is larger than the other. And the local affiliate has a bad typo here. Can you find it?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan08.jpg\" alt=\"Slate\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese is OK, but the fortunes are just so optimistic that I am forced to go back for more!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan09.jpg\" alt=\"Allie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Every so often I have to go look for the cat. This isn&#8217;t hard to do, she&#8217;s a creature of very precise habits and schedules, for the most part. This is a complete violation of her suntanning time.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan10.jpg\" alt=\"Allie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>No idea what this is about:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan13\/jan11.jpg\" alt=\"Allie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly extra photos post! Now with 45 percent more cat. She&#8217;s helping me do a bit of research. You&#8217;ll see some of her hard work here in the next few days: When she saw the preview for the upcoming Star Trek The Yankee asked me if this all constitutes a re-launch. I had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573896152,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884348\/revisions\/573896152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}