{"id":259,"date":"2004-12-30T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T20:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=259"},"modified":"2015-02-24T22:45:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:45:57","slug":"decembers-greatest-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"December’s Greatest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"

The top fifteen reasons people checked out allyngibson.com<\/a> in the month of December.<\/p>\n

15. “John Lennon atheist.”<\/a> I wouldn’t call Lennon an atheist, per se, but he certainly had his issues with organized religion. Witness this quote–“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I am right, and have been proven right. We’re bigger than Jesus, now.” Witness his song “God” on Plastic Ono Band<\/i>. I don’t know what Lennon believed, but I can say that he had deep thoughts on the existence of a diety.<\/p>\n

14. “Hobbit Calendar.”<\/a> The Hobbit calendar isn’t like our own. It’s similar, but not the same.<\/p>\n

13. “British Impressment Literature 1812.” I admit, I like nautical fiction. I wanted to join the Navy out of high school, but medical conditions intervened.<\/p>\n

12. “Requiem for a Martian.”<\/a> The reputedly lost third season Star Trek<\/i> episode in which Kirk is transported to late-1800s San Francisco, while McCoy and Sulu are trapped in the 21st-century Martian colonies.<\/p>\n

11. “Bleacher Creatures.” A Doctor Who<\/i> drabble.<\/p>\n

10. “Bill Leisner blog.”<\/a> Star Trek<\/i> author. Not the first time a Trek<\/i> author has been one of the top draws to my website; for a six-month period people must have thought I ran Kevin Dilmore’s official fan club because Dilmore’s name was the top search draw.<\/p>\n

9. “Bart Faulwell.”<\/a> In Star Trek: SCE<\/b> Faulwell serves as the linguist aboard the USS daVinci<\/i>, and I would say he’s my favorite character in the group. Why? Because he’s the tourist in the group. I like tourists. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

8. “Oneders Where are They Now.”<\/a> The Wonders, the band from Tom Hanks’ film That Thing You Do!<\/i>, went at one point by the moniker The Oneders. Where are they now? I’ve got nothing.<\/p>\n

7. “Lord of the Rings Christmas Cards.”<\/a> Don’t look at me–Hobbits don’t celebrate Christmas.<\/p>\n

6. “Federation starships.” Erm, okay. No snarky comments here.<\/p>\n

5. “The Wonders Playtone.” See number 8.<\/p>\n

4. “Khan Noonien Singh.”<\/a> 20th-century genetically engineered superman who ruled a quarter of the Earth under his iron fist in the mid-1990s in an alternate history.<\/p>\n

3. “Allyn Gibson.” Curious. This search term seems familiar, but I can’t place it….<\/p>\n

2. “Daleks.”<\/a> The tin-plated pepperpots from the planet Skaro.<\/p>\n

And for number one….<\/p>\n

1. “Kzin.”<\/a>. I seem to be some sort of expert–I wrote an essay about fitting the Kzin into the post-Star Trek: First Contact<\/b> Star Trek<\/i> universe, and it’s my biggest draw.<\/p>\n

I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions, but here’s one — be less of a nerd in 2005. Who’s with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top fifteen reasons people checked out allyngibson.com in the month of December. 15. “John Lennon atheist.” I wouldn’t call Lennon an atheist, per se, but he certainly had his issues with organized religion. Witness this quote–“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I am right, and have been proven right. We’re bigger thanContinue reading “December’s Greatest Hits”<\/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":[4095],"tags":[4104,64,94,737,77,906,825,351,348,883],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-atheism","tag-christmas","tag-daleks","tag-drabbles","tag-john-lennon","tag-khan","tag-kzin","tag-meta","tag-shire-reckoning","tag-that-thing-you-do","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}