{"id":857,"date":"2005-05-31T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T22:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=857"},"modified":"2005-05-31T22:18:02","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T22:18:02","slug":"questionable_ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Questionable Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Star Trek novel on a summer reading list<\/a>? That’s got to be a first. I’m almost embarrassed to admit, but I used to devour Star Trek books like candy when I was a teenager. When you grow up in a town without one decent bookstore, you have to be content with the available pickings, which in Green Bay amounted to a dreary corner of a Waldenbooks that carried scraps of science fiction and fantasy, and mostly franchise stuff like Star Trek and Dungeons and Dragons. I remember how ecstatic I was when I first visited a Barnes and Noble store in Appleton. This was before Amazon and the web in general. If these things had been around when I was a kid, I like to think my reading list would have been a little broader. But to be honest, I might have simply ordered more Star Trek novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Star Trek novel on a summer reading list? That’s got to be a first. I’m almost embarrassed to admit, but I used to devour Star Trek books like candy when I was a teenager. When you grow up in a town without one decent bookstore, you have to be content with the available pickings, […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","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-dP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}