{"id":15386,"date":"2012-06-06T08:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T13:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15386"},"modified":"2012-06-06T08:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T13:13:30","slug":"cassys-guide-to-naming-spaceships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/cassys-guide-to-naming-spaceships\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassy&#8217;s guide to naming spaceships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to put a bit more thought into how you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2012\/06\/05\/prometheus_icarus_ii_narcissus_what_not_to_name_your_spaceship.html\" target=\"_blank\">name your spaceships<\/a>, people of the future!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear People of the Future,<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations! If you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019ve just received a state-of-the-art spacecraft, and you\u2019re probably about to take it on an extremely dangerous mission. Your journey may even concern the safety and continued survival of the human race.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t worry! I\u2019m betting your new ride is pretty sick. It\u2019s probably got a warp drive and maybe a solar sail and lots of other technology I couldn\u2019t even begin to understand.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, you\u2019re probably wondering: What should I name my spacecraft?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good advice. Really. But I <em>was<\/em> surprised to find that there had been a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Custer_%28APA-40%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>USS Custer<\/em><\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_General_Burnside_%281862%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>USS General Burnside<\/em><\/a>, and even the <a href=\"https:\/\/encrypted.google.com\/search?q=uss+benedict+arnold&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\" target=\"_blank\"><em>USS Benedict Arnold<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to John Turner for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to put a bit more thought into how you name your spaceships, people of the future! Dear People of the Future, Congratulations! If you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019ve just received a state-of-the-art spacecraft, and you\u2019re probably about to take it on an extremely dangerous mission. Your journey may even concern the safety and continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1526,7,57,28],"tags":[122,822,85,61],"class_list":["post-15386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-history","category-humour","category-media","tag-movies","tag-mythology","tag-sf","tag-ships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-40a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15387,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386\/revisions\/15387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}