{"id":221,"date":"2006-05-03T22:37:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T03:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/05\/03\/commander-spacedork-esquire\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T19:20:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T23:20:42","slug":"commander-spacedork-esquire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/221","title":{"rendered":"Commander SpaceDork, Esquire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226; Other than motorist, you can call him a lot of things, because he just might be the most multi-talented person I&#8217;ve ever known&#8212;artist, musician, actor, humorist, gamesman, advocate, designer, scientist, thinker&#8212;how does someone like that decide what to do? Well, it appears he has decided what to do and what to be called&#8230; <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Writer<\/span>.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; He expanded my joy of uncle-hood, and has enriched my life with his many discoveries, observations, and creative acts. He jolts my imagination. He makes me ponder, stretch, laugh.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Of course, he&#8217;s brilliant, but also understanding, understandable, considerate, generous, and fun-loving. As we all know, those qualities don&#8217;t automatically go together.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; When he was four, he said to me, &#8220;My favorite thing that makes me happy is&#8230; money.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Today, I suppose, his favorite things that make him happy are&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Free words&#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/\">one hundred and one<\/a> at a time, to be precise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> \n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my &#8220;NB.&#8221; I love you, forever&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226; Other than motorist, you can call him a lot of things, because he just might be the most multi-talented person I&#8217;ve ever known&#8212;artist, musician, actor, humorist, gamesman, advocate, designer, scientist, thinker&#8212;how does someone like that decide what to do? Well, it appears he has decided what to do and what to be called&#8230; Writer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}