{"id":85,"date":"2015-06-03T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/06\/03\/i-did-not-understand-this-metaphor-in-1982\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T22:07:00","slug":"i-did-not-understand-this-metaphor-in-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/06\/03\/i-did-not-understand-this-metaphor-in-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"I Did Not Understand This Metaphor in 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I&#8217;m, y&#8217;know, <i>older<\/i> now. And when McCoy says <a href=\"http:\/\/movie-sounds.org\/sci-fi-movie-samples\/sound-clips-from-star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982\/i-ll-take-it-in-my-quarters-uhura-aye-sir-it-never-rains-but-it-pours\">&#8220;It never rains but it pours&#8221;<\/a> to Kirk in <i>Wrath of Khan<\/i>, I know <i>exactly<\/i> what he means.<\/p>\n<p>Skip to 1:11 for the relevant dialogue:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jRYlPifDUBg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jRYlPifDUBg?t=1m11s\">youtu.be\/jRYlPifDUBg<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also appropriate for this week, since I now have no fewer than <i>four<\/i> different editors waiting for my revisions to various fiction pieces. Which means I need to prioritize my work schedule for the next few weeks. Meta-work!<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001410\/bio#quotes\">Lawrence Kasdan<\/a> once said: <b>&#8220;Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, somewhere in America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmSbXsFE3l8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cmSbXsFE3l8\">youtu.be\/cmSbXsFE3l8<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I&#8217;m, y&#8217;know, older now. And when McCoy says &#8220;It never rains but it pours&#8221; to Kirk in Wrath of Khan, I know exactly what he means. Skip to 1:11 for the relevant dialogue: youtu.be\/jRYlPifDUBg It&#8217;s also appropriate for this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,43,53,16,42,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music","category-startrek","category-theiinmeat","category-video","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}