{"id":838,"date":"2015-03-17T09:21:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2015-06-24T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T15:44:51","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-837\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1867exposition.jpg\" alt=\"1867exposition\" width=\"254\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1867exposition.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1867exposition-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/> If <em>Star Trek<\/em> was written by the guy who wrote the book I&#8217;m reading now:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello again for the ten-thousandth time, Mr. Data.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Hello Captain Picard. Welcome back to the bridge of the Enterprise, the ship you are the captain of.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Indeed I am. And you are my trusted science officer, even though you are a robot.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But I am a robot that strives to understand people.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;As we have discussed so many times, Mr. Data. Please point the ship towards danger.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Of course, Captain. I am bound to follow your orders, as I am a member of Star Fleet, a military-like organization with a strict chain of command.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;As am I, Mister Data. But you would follow my orders anyway, as we have a bond of mutual respect.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Forged in many close calls in which we have come to each other&#8217;s assistance.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;True. And though we carry weapons on this ship, we are a peaceful organization.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Of course we are, sir.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Star Trek was written by the guy who wrote the book I&#8217;m reading now: &#8220;Hello again for the ten-thousandth time, Mr. Data.&#8221; &#8220;Hello Captain Picard. Welcome back to the bridge of the Enterprise, the ship you are the captain of.&#8221; &#8220;Indeed I am. And you are my trusted science officer, even though you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginary-institute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}