{"id":1743,"date":"2007-11-03T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T15:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2007-11-03T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T15:40:42","slug":"godspeed_ensign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1743","title":{"rendered":"Godspeed, Ensign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Trek geeks: rejoice. You will soon be able to declare your fanboy\/fangirl status from beyond the grave. A company called Eternal Image is offering Trek-themed caskets and urns<\/a> to house your mortal remains once you’ve beamed up from this mortal coil. The casket looks comfy, but you probably won’t get to be shot out of a photon torpedo tube onto the Genesis planet where you’ll be miraculously rejuvenated. The urn looks like some cheap trinket from the MoMA catalog. <\/p>\n

As for me, this kind of stuff is a little too crass for my taste. Sure, I like to get my Trek on, but I don’t want to be stuck on the ground or placed on a shelf encased in a pop culture artifact. Just hire a cadre of beautiful fishnet-stockinged women to dump my ashes in the the Seine and I’ll be happy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Star Trek geeks: rejoice. You will soon be able to declare your fanboy\/fangirl status from beyond the grave. A company called Eternal Image is offering Trek-themed caskets and urns to house your mortal remains once you’ve beamed up from this mortal coil. The casket looks comfy, but you probably won’t get to be shot out […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-s7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}