{"id":2687,"date":"2012-10-25T19:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T19:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2012-10-25T19:29:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T19:29:23","slug":"im-such-a-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/im-such-a-nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Such a Nerd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been going around the InterWebs the last couple days, so you may have already seen it &#8212; I&#8217;m somewhat ashamed that our esteemed colleague Jaquandor <a href=\"http:\/\/byzantiumshores.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/wow-look-at-all-strange-new-worlds-and.html\">beat me<\/a> to the punch on this one &#8212; but I have to make a note of it anyhow because it&#8217;s just so damn cool. It&#8217;s the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/fav.me\/d5ihg4k\">masterpiece<\/a> by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/dusty-abell.deviantart.com\/\">Dusty Abell<\/a>, whose tribute to the live-action Saturday-morning kid shows of the &#8217;70s <a title=\"Saturday Mornings Back in the Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1384\">caught my eye<\/a> a few years ago. But this new painting handily surpasses that earlier one, both in terms of information density &#8212; there&#8217;s <i>a lot<\/i> to look at here &#8212; and also in the size of the smile it brought to my face. Yes, I can identify each and every character, ship, and object in this painting, and tell you the name of the episode it came from&#8230; and you know what? I&#8217;m not at all shy about admitting it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/star_trek_the_original_series_by_dusty_abell-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2880 aligncenter\" alt=\"star_trek_the_original_series_by_dusty_abell\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/star_trek_the_original_series_by_dusty_abell-197x300.jpg\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Be sure to click on the image and go through to the highest magnification so you can really savor the detail. If you&#8217;re of a certain age and even a mild fan of the original &#8212; the <i>true <\/i>&#8212; <em>Star Trek<\/em>, I guarantee you&#8217;ll be impressed. This image is simply magnificent. I wish Dusty was offering a print of it, to be honest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Also worth your consideration: Dusty&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fav.me\/d1tovzx\">Television Sci-Fi\u00a0 and Superheroes of the &#8217;70s<\/a>.&#8221; They&#8217;re all there, man, all my imaginary childhood friends. This Dusty Abell is my kind of nerd.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something that&#8217;s been going around the InterWebs the last couple days, so you may have already seen it &#8212; I&#8217;m somewhat ashamed that our esteemed colleague Jaquandor beat me to the punch on this one &#8212; but I have to make a note of it anyhow because it&#8217;s just so damn cool. It&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-architecture","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","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=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}