{"id":498,"date":"2007-08-26T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=498"},"modified":"2007-08-26T23:00:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T06:00:29","slug":"going-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2007\/08\/going-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bubonicon.com\/\">Bubonicon<\/a> hotel this morning and boarded an elevator with an elderly couple. They must have both in their 70&#8217;s; he was walking with two canes.<\/p>\n<p>She saw my badge and asked if the Klingons were still around. I immediately flashed back to the masquerade MC&#8217;s (Victor Milan) comment the previous evening about an older mundane couple that had that &#8220;deer caught in the headlights&#8221; look after getting onto a elevator full of Klingons. (Bubonicon is known for having a lot of hall costumers.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I gently told her that they were still around, somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>She then commented that they all seemed to be Klingons, there weren&#8217;t any Romulans. Though she did note that one Klingon seemed to be wearing a Romulan uniform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a Trekkie.&#8221; she called over her shoulder as she shepherded her husband off the elevator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out of the Bubonicon hotel this morning and boarded an elevator with an elderly couple. They must have both in their 70&#8217;s; he was walking with two canes. She saw my badge and asked if the Klingons were still around. I immediately flashed back to the masquerade MC&#8217;s (Victor Milan) comment the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2007\/08\/going-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going Down?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","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":[5,7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-general","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-82","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}