{"id":442,"date":"2006-03-18T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2006-03-18T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T00:42:00","slug":"scandal-names-firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Scandal, Names &#038; Firefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detoxing after tonight&#8217;s <i>Scandal!<\/i>&#8230; it was a good one.  If I had my doubts about the sustainability of Chris Blair playing Ted Nugent, they were certainly quelled after the first scene.<\/p>\n<p>Apropos of nothing&#8230; names.<\/p>\n<p>My brother&#8217;s full name is Justin Ray Lucas.  My full name is Ryan Jay (Colosa) Lucas.  My parents thought the Jay\/Ray thing was neat.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided that my next child should have a middle name that starts with a D.  First one who can tell me why wins a valuable No Prize<sup>1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to <i>Scandal!<\/i> and back, I listened to <i>The Signal<\/i> podcast&#8230; a fan podcast about <i>Serenity\/Firefly<\/i>.  Some people have too much time on their hands.  Including me, because I found myself fascinated, especially in the analysis of the timeline&#8230; calculating when things happened based on lines from the movies and tv shows.  Mal is 50! Who knew?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><sup>1<\/sup>There was a comic book I used to read&#8230; Flash?  Fantastic Four? Don&#8217;t remember.  Anyway, in the letters section, if a reader could point out an error in a comic, they would win a valuable No Prize.  Which was, essentially, no prize.  But it was an <i>official<\/i> No Prize.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detoxing after tonight&#8217;s Scandal!&#8230; it was a good one. If I had my doubts about the sustainability of Chris Blair playing Ted Nugent, they were certainly quelled after the first scene. Apropos of nothing&#8230; names. My brother&#8217;s full name is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=442\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}