{"id":2228,"date":"2009-05-11T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2009-05-11T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T06:01:00","slug":"fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let it never be said that I can&#8217;t admit when I&#8217;m wrong. And yes, that was a double negative.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, if you had asked me about the-then-upcoming Star Trek movie, I would have said, &#8220;Why bother? End the franchise, it&#8217;s over.&#8221; Star Trek had been dying slowly for years, and I was not a fan of <i>Alias<\/i> or <i>Lost<\/i>, and therefore not a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JJ_Abrams\">J.J. Abrams<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I watched Star Trek over the weekend&#8211;it was <i>good<\/i>, and the franchise is back. Not only was I wrong, I&#8217;m glad that I was wrong. Mr. Abrams you now have not only critical and financial success, but also the respect of this nerd. I&#8217;m <i>sure<\/i> that must mean the world to you. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spock\">Spock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/stlitespockweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/stlitespockweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I may have enjoyed the new movie, but just to be clear, this is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonard_Nimoy\">Leonard<\/a>, not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zachary_Quinto\">Zachary<\/a>. Or Spock <i>Prime<\/i> as they&#8217;re now calling him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it never be said that I can&#8217;t admit when I&#8217;m wrong. And yes, that was a double negative. A year ago, if you had asked me about the-then-upcoming Star Trek movie, I would have said, &#8220;Why bother? End the franchise, it&#8217;s over.&#8221; Star Trek had been dying slowly for years, and I was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}