{"id":1215,"date":"2021-02-01T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:08:33","slug":"early-impressions-of-the-new-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/early-impressions-of-the-new-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Impressions of the New Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching speeches by the new president reminds me so much of <em>Star Trek<\/em> (the Original Series). Specifically this episode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/p.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/p.jpg 540w, https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/p-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: I am not <em>not NOT<\/em> saying that anyone in the administration, much less the president, espouses the tenets of nationalism-socialism. (&#8220;Say what you will about them, but at least it&#8217;s an ethos.&#8221;) If you&#8217;d seen the episode, you&#8217;d know that. And if you haven&#8217;t seen it, maybe you should before you make inferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I wonder if that episode could be aired today. The iconography seems so triggering by modern standards.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching speeches by the new president reminds me so much of Star Trek (the Original Series). Specifically this episode: Note: I am not not NOT saying that anyone in the administration, much less the president, espouses the tenets of nationalism-socialism. (&#8220;Say what you will about them, but at least it&#8217;s an ethos.&#8221;) If you&#8217;d seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[23],"tags":[213,433],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-politics-2","tag-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-jB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}