{"id":235,"date":"2017-03-01T13:38:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=235"},"modified":"2017-03-01T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T06:03:00","slug":"this-is-the-starship-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"This is the Starship Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-236\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trek-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"Console\" width=\"625\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trek-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trek-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trek-624x452.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>No, seriously, this is the actual console from the TV series. \u00a0We ambled over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mopop.org\/\">Museum of Popular Culture<\/a>, formerly the Experience Music Project, where a surprisingly thoughtful exhibit of gear, wardrobe and cultural notes ends this week with the show&#8217;s induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>We chose this week to visit because of an overlapping tribute to the work of Rube Goldberg. \u00a0I got movies of a couple of working models of Goldberg-like devices, but the most interesting items were his original drawings.<\/p>\n<p>One non-functioning exhibit reproduced the Enterprise&#8217;s teleporter, pictured here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transporter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-239\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transporter-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"transporter\" width=\"625\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transporter-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transporter-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/transporter-624x420.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, seriously, this is the actual console from the TV series. \u00a0We ambled over to the Museum of Popular Culture, formerly the Experience Music Project, where a surprisingly thoughtful exhibit of gear, wardrobe and cultural notes ends this week with the show&#8217;s induction into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. We chose this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}