{"id":3231,"date":"2012-04-05T21:25:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T02:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2012-04-05T21:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T02:25:19","slug":"first-president-of-the-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3231","title":{"rendered":"First President Of The Federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of Obama flashing the Vulcan salute during a <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2012\/04\/obama-gives-vulcan-salute-with-lt-uhura\/1#.T35TtatYuDV\">visit with Nichelle Nichols<\/a> (Lt. Uhura from <em>Star Trek<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.usatoday.net\/communitymanager\/_photos\/the-oval\/2012\/04\/05\/obama-startrekx-large.jpg?w=695\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine Mitt Romney doing this? Or even getting the reference? Romney would probably tear a muscle just attempting the gesture.<\/p>\n<p>I have plenty of reasons to vote for Obama. But this picture pretty much encapsulates all of them. He may be the only nerd-in-chief I&#8217;ll get in my lifetime who, at least for a while, kept the White House free of frat boys and bubbas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of Obama flashing the Vulcan salute during a visit with Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura from Star Trek): Can you imagine Mitt Romney doing this? Or even getting the reference? Romney would probably tear a muscle just attempting the gesture. I have plenty of reasons to vote for Obama. But this picture pretty <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3231' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeking-out","category-politics","category-17-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","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=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}