{"id":11255,"date":"2007-10-09T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T20:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/10\/09\/the-top-twenty-starship-captains.html"},"modified":"2007-10-09T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T20:21:59","slug":"the_top_twenty_starship_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/09\/the_top_twenty_starship_c.html","title":{"rendered":"The Top Twenty Starship Captains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, maybe, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kunochan.com\/?p=165\" target=\"_blank\">Twenty Starship Captains the Writer Finds Interesting<\/a>,&#8221; since he actually ends up dissing the first half-dozen or so.<\/p>\n<p>Good reading, though.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2007\/10\/captain_my_captain.html\" target=\"_blank\">BD<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, maybe, &#8220;Twenty Starship Captains the Writer Finds Interesting,&#8221; since he actually ends up dissing the first half-dozen or so. 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