{"id":1500,"date":"2008-08-08T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T11:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2008-08-08T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T11:05:32","slug":"im_alive_not_for_long_though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/08\/im_alive_not_for_long_though\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Alive (Not for Long, Though)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any student of classic <i>Star Trek<\/i> knows that one&#8217;s sartorial choices have a direct impact on your potential longevity. So much so, in fact, that the term &#8220;redshirt&#8221; has come into general usage in sci-fi fandom to denote &#8220;the minor character who won&#8217;t make it to the end of the episode.&#8221; As evidence that color choices matter, allow me to present this amusing video montage:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M3cL1Aofy90&amp;color1=11645361&amp;color2=13619151&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/M3cL1Aofy90&amp;color1=11645361&amp;color2=13619151&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The music is &#8220;I&#8217;m Alive&#8221; by ELO (that&#8217;s the Electric Light Orchestra, for you young&#8217;uns in the audience). Extra credit to the first commenter who can name the one episode that racks up the highest redshirt body count (a clip from said episode begins this video, if that helps at all).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any student of classic Star Trek knows that one&#8217;s sartorial choices have a direct impact on your potential longevity. So much so, in fact, that the term &#8220;redshirt&#8221; has come into general usage in sci-fi fandom to denote &#8220;the minor character who won&#8217;t make it to the end of the episode.&#8221; As evidence that color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}