{"id":616,"date":"2009-12-31T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T05:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2009-12-31T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T05:27:13","slug":"well-if-youre-going-to-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/616","title":{"rendered":"Well, if you’re going to look back…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…you might as well look back even further.<\/p>\n

I liked my previous post<\/a> comparing 1999 to 2009, but the interesting thing was while I was finishing it up, the family and I have been watching the original Star Trek<\/a> season 1 via streaming from NetFlix on the PlayStation 3. New tech to watch old tech. Honestly, I was never much of a fan of the original series but they were interested due to the recent MythBusters episode<\/a> where they tested the hand-made cannon that Capt. Kirk used against the Gorn (“The Arena”, s1 ep 18).<\/p>\n

It’s fun to look back. It’s also good to give the kids some perspective on such an influence on modern science fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…you might as well look back even further. I liked my previous post comparing 1999 to 2009, but the interesting thing was while I was finishing it up, the family and I have been watching the original Star Trek season … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t