{"id":131345,"date":"2021-11-27T09:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/star-trek-meme-reminds-us-to-be-thankful-for-earth-itself"},"modified":"2021-11-27T09:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T17:44:40","slug":"star-trek-meme-reminds-us-to-be-thankful-for-earth-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/star-trek-meme-reminds-us-to-be-thankful-for-earth-itself","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Star Trek\u2019 Meme Reminds Us To Be Thankful For Earth Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/star-trek-meme-reminds-us-to-be-thankful-for-earth-itself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has been rife with \u201cStar Trek\u201d Thanksgiving memes for the last week or more which in and of itself is puzzling. \u201cStar Trek\u201d is hardly the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about when commemorating the first harvest feast shared by this country\u2019s Pilgrim colonists and local Native Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s reasonable to assert that \u201cStar Trek\u201d and Thanksgiving are at least tangentially linked since the latter is a celebration of home and hearth whereas \u201cStar Trek\u201d is a celebration of humankind\u2019s exploration of the cosmos. Certainly, this time of year represents an ideal time of year to be thankful for home and shelter.<\/p>\n<p>As for \u201cStar Trek\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook meme\u2019s link to \u201cStar Trek\u201d reminds us that we should also celebrate our home planet during this time of thanksgiving. With each passing observation, extrasolar planet hunters using both ground-and space-based telescopes are teaching us that earthlike analogs are very few and far between.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has been rife with \u201cStar Trek\u201d Thanksgiving memes for the last week or more which in and of itself is puzzling. \u201cStar Trek\u201d is hardly the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about when commemorating the first harvest feast shared by this country\u2019s Pilgrim colonists and local Native Americans. But it\u2019s reasonable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-habitats","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}