{"id":1516,"date":"2001-04-08T23:51:14","date_gmt":"2001-04-09T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2001-04-08T23:51:14","modified_gmt":"2001-04-09T04:51:14","slug":"on-a-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"On a Force of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Tiberius Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk&#8217;s life had a purpose.  Kirk&#8217;s life had a drive.  Kirk was not just a man, he was a force of nature.  He dared gods to strike him down, and walked away to tell the tale. Dying on Veridian III was an ending so mundane that I was insulted because the death felt so pointless.  So unworthy of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Tiberius Kirk. Kirk&#8217;s life had a purpose. Kirk&#8217;s life had a drive. Kirk was not just a man, he was a force of nature. He dared gods to strike him down, and walked away to tell the tale. Dying on Veridian III was an ending so mundane that I was insulted because the death<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1516\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a Force of Nature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[835],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-james-kirk","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}