{"id":143874,"date":"2015-07-26T23:17:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/26\/darkestelemental616-merindab-in-case-anyone\/"},"modified":"2015-07-26T23:17:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T23:17:28","slug":"darkestelemental616-merindab-in-case-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/26\/darkestelemental616-merindab-in-case-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darkestelemental616.tumblr.com\/post\/125118205036\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">darkestelemental616<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/merindab.tumblr.com\/post\/125101033374\/in-case-anyone-is-wondering-where-i-get-my\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">merindab<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In case anyone is wondering where I get my nerdiness from, my folks just posted on Facebook that they\u2019re at a Steampunk Festival. And then there\u2019s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My mom knitted a Tom Baker scarf. In like, 1985. She still has it.<\/li>\n<li>My dad went with me to a Star Trek convention in 1995.<\/li>\n<li>I have distinct memories of my parents watching Star Trek:TNG. And we used to watch the Red Dwarf marathons on PBS. In high school Sunday nights were Doctor Who and Blakes 7.<\/li>\n<li>When my mom owned a coffee and candy shop she made sure she sold Jelly Babies. They used to come in a Tardis shaped box.<\/li>\n<li>My mom had an original 1960s edition of Lord of the Rings.<\/li>\n<li>My dad woke us up at 3am one morning when I was a kid to see the Northern Lights.<\/li>\n<li>I have faded memories of sneaking out of bed to watch Granada Holmes with my dad in the wee hours of the morning.<\/li>\n<li>For that matter my parents came to Sherlock Seattle last year and really enjoyed themselves. My mom likes Basil Rathbone apparently<\/li>\n<li>My dad\u2019s an airplane geek and I\u2019ve been to more airshows then I can shake a stick at.<\/li>\n<li>My dad\u2019s had a computer since the early 80s. We had one that ran on cassette tapes, went to Amiga and he stuck with that until he went to Mac in the late 90s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Geeky parents are awesome and not a new phenomenon, and I\u2019m glad they passed it on to me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Which means that if\/when you come to VA we need to go to Bealeton to see the airshow, obviously~\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I lived in Nofolk for a few years. I\u2019ve been to the V<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vasc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">irginia Air and Space museum<\/a> a few times.Took my dad there too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>darkestelemental616: merindab: In case anyone is wondering where I get my nerdiness from, my folks just posted on Facebook that they\u2019re at a Steampunk Festival. And then there\u2019s: My mom knitted a Tom Baker scarf. In like, 1985. She still has it. My dad went with me to a Star Trek convention in 1995. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/26\/darkestelemental616-merindab-in-case-anyone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}