{"id":8914,"date":"2017-02-13T23:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2017-02-13T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:17:01","slug":"blue-squadron-honors-its-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/13\/blue-squadron-honors-its-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Squadron Honors Its Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across a really beautiful piece of fan art the other day that I wanted to include with my previous entry, but I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to fit it in. So I&#8217;m going to present it here instead, on its own. Ladies and gentleman, in tribute to the late Richard Hatch:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bsg_vipers_missing-man-formation_RichardDyke-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bsg_vipers_missing-man-formation_RichardDyke-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Vipers flying the &quot;missing man&quot; formation, by Richard Dyke\" width=\"725\" height=\"544\" \/><\/a>(If you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re looking at, those are Vipers, the fighter craft flown by Hatch&#8217;s character Apollo, assuming the &#8220;missing man&#8221; formation that&#8217;s often seen at memorials for fallen pilots. I can so easily imagine how this would&#8217;ve looked in motion, with one of the ships pulling up and away, trailing the characteristic blue vapor trail from its turbos&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>This image is by a talented gentleman named Richard Dyke, from the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/GalacticaModels\/\">Original Battlestar Galactica Models<\/a>&#8221; Facebook group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across a really beautiful piece of fan art the other day that I wanted to include with my previous entry, but I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to fit it in. So I&#8217;m going to present it here instead, on its own. Ladies and gentleman, in tribute to the late Richard Hatch: (If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","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=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}