{"id":10221,"date":"2006-08-09T07:09:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T14:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/08\/09\/the-final-inspirational-frontier.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:19:47","slug":"the_final_inspi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/09\/the_final_inspi.html","title":{"rendered":"The Final Inspirational Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Expendability\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/st-expendability.jpg\" width=\"432\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/echosphere.net\/star_trek_insp\/star_trek_insp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek &#8220;Inspirational&#8221; Posters<\/a>.  Pretty funny.<\/p>\n<p>If I were in the Inspirational Poster biz, I&#8217;d be really worried, because the proliferation of this meme as &#8220;something to poke fun at&#8221; is getting pretty wide-spread.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, I should be worried that not only did I instantly recognize the episode from above, but music and dialog started playing in my head.  And I&#8217;m pretty certain the fellow&#8217;s name wasn&#8217;t &#8220;Ensign Ricky,&#8221; but that makes the joke better.)<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/ladyofdragonflies.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/highly-illogical.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek &#8220;Inspirational&#8221; Posters. Pretty funny. If I were in the Inspirational Poster biz, I&#8217;d be really worried, because the proliferation of this meme as &#8220;something to poke fun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[30,360,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131264,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/a-faboo-50th-anniversary-star-trek-tos-poster.html","url_meta":{"origin":10221,"position":0},"title":"A faboo 50th Anniversary &quot;Star Trek&quot; TOS poster","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Aug-16 6:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I am sorely tempted. 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