{"id":4609,"date":"2013-07-29T14:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2013-08-12T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T19:58:42","slug":"kirk-vs-khan-the-way-it-was-meant-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2013\/07\/kirk-vs-khan-the-way-it-was-meant-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk vs Khan: The Way It Was Meant to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back when Captain Kirk battled Khan Noonien Singh and they made a good movie about it?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, unless you&#8217;re like, 35 years old (or older), you weren&#8217;t around during that blessed time. Some money-grubbers remade the movie swapping lens-flare for pathos and back story, but I suggest you skip that one.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the original one had, of course, lots of tie-in merchandise, including a recorded book (on vinyl), which I purchased at a thrift shop some years ago. I think I bought it back in 2004 &#8211; August 2004 to be more precise. Jennifer and I were vacationing for our anniversary, and I spotted this record still in its original packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to July 2013: I&#8217;m moving our record collection from one cabinet to another cabinet, and my son sees the record. He says he wants to listen to it. I tell him we will later.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, we finally did listen to it. Watch this short documentary on the event, below. If nothing else, I get a kick out of the excitement in Owen&#8217;s expressions:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BieM-14XGl8?list=UUPiTL68vErS99fOimPtayuA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back when Captain Kirk battled Khan Noonien Singh and they made a good movie about it? Yeah, unless you&#8217;re like, 35 years old (or older), you weren&#8217;t around during that blessed time. Some money-grubbers remade the movie swapping lens-flare for pathos and back story, but I suggest you skip that one. Anyway, the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}