{"id":1364,"date":"2009-12-27T22:31:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T03:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2019-12-15T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T17:41:33","slug":"who-goes-with-fergus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Who Goes with Fergus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/~hceng029\/yeats\/yeatspoems\/Fergus\">W. B. Yeats<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1377\" title=\"Galactic Vista\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Galactic-Vista1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Galactic Vista\" width=\"352\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Galactic-Vista1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Galactic-Vista1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>January 2010 will mark three years since the launch of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipreckless.com\/\">Starship Reckless<\/a><\/em>. The experience has been wondrous for me, and I want to thank all my visitors, regular and irregular, for making the journey an unalloyed pleasure. For those of you who are lurking, I\u2019m curious to know what your (pre)occupations are and what drew you to the site. Drop me a line when you have a moment, here or by e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>And unless a meteorite pierces the hull or we get too close to a black hole, we\u2019ll keep flying\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;for my purpose holds<br \/>\nTo sail beyond the sunset, and the baths<br \/>\nOf all the western stars, until I die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>Ulysses;<\/em> Alfred, Lord Tennyson<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1364-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/serenity-love.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/serenity-love.mp3\">https:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/serenity-love.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Image: <em>Galactic Vista<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrasolar.net\/usage.asp\">John Whatmough<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music: <em>Serenity<\/em>, &#8220;Love&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracksounds.com\/reviews\/firefly_serenity.htm\">David Newman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; W. B. Yeats January 2010 will mark three years since the launch of Starship Reckless. The experience has been wondrous for me, and I want to thank all my visitors, regular and irregular, for making the journey an unalloyed pleasure. For those of you who are lurking, I\u2019m curious to know what your (pre)occupations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}