{"id":13171,"date":"2021-06-07T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13171"},"modified":"2021-06-07T00:28:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T05:28:06","slug":"captain-kirks-birthplace-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/captain-kirks-birthplace-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Kirk&#8217;s birthplace moved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7BKqlZf9pUQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/chi-040708iowatrek-story.html\">birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk<\/a>, the most famous Iowan who hasn&#8217;t been born yet, isn&#8217;t where it used to be.\u00a0Or not where it was supposed to will have been. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i_-ZoO87KpY\">(&#8220;I hate temporal mechanics,&#8221;<\/a> said the Miles O&#8217;Briens. Mileses O&#8217;Brien?)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still in Riverside, but had to move because the of the new property owner&#8217;s wishes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southeastiowaunion.com\/news\/riverside-relocates-future-kirk-birthplace\/?amp=1\">reports the <em>Southeast Iowa Union<\/em><\/a>. Remember, we&#8217;re talking about the Original Timeline, not the 2009 alternate reality where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QxbJJ995Vjo\">Kirk is born in an escape shuttle<\/a> less than a minute before the USS Kelvin blows up.<\/p>\n<p>If you come hundreds of light years to see where one of the greatest starship captains of all time was born, what&#8217;s a block off, really?<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: REALLY, YouTube? Really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk, the most famous Iowan who hasn&#8217;t been born yet, isn&#8217;t where it used to be.\u00a0Or not where it was supposed to will have been. (&#8220;I hate temporal mechanics,&#8221; said the Miles O&#8217;Briens. Mileses &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/captain-kirks-birthplace-moved\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13177,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171\/revisions\/13177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}