{"id":238627,"date":"2013-12-10T00:27:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T00:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/10\/frantzfandom-shadesoffantasy-classictrek\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T05:25:12","slug":"frantzfandom-shadesoffantasy-classictrek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/10\/frantzfandom-shadesoffantasy-classictrek\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-238627 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/10\/frantzfandom-shadesoffantasy-classictrek\/attachment\/238628\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mxb3puN1EX1qmtfp8o1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mxb3puN1EX1qmtfp8o1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mxb3puN1EX1qmtfp8o1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/10\/frantzfandom-shadesoffantasy-classictrek\/attachment\/238629\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mxb3puN1EX1qmtfp8o2_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mxb3puN1EX1qmtfp8o2_r1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mxb3puN1EX1qmtfp8o2_r1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/frantzfandom.tumblr.com\/post\/69360183377\/shadesoffantasy-classictrek-nichelle-nichols\" target=\"_blank\">frantzfandom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/shadesoffantasy.tumblr.com\/post\/69359363274\/classictrek-nichelle-nichols-talks-to-a-group\" target=\"_blank\">shadesoffantasy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/classictrek.tumblr.com\/post\/69312038571\/nichelle-nichols-talks-to-a-group-of-students-at\" target=\"_blank\">classictrek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nichelle Nichols talks to a group of students at NASA Mission Control in 1977 and visits the Lewis Research center that same year.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1970s, Nichols has given a speech that criticized NASA for not selecting women and people of color as astronaut candidates. The agency\u2019s response was to hire her to find and recruit talented minorities and women, and she did exactly that. In her tenure as a recruiter, she helped the agency bring five women, three African American men and an Asian American male on board.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>if you don\u2019t think this lady is the best. You\u2019re lying to yourself and we can\u2019t be friends<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the way that history works behind the scenes<\/p>\n<p>You got Lucille Ball pushing to make Star Trek happen<\/p>\n<p>You got MLK pleading with Nichelle to stay on the show<\/p>\n<p>And then you get Nichelle helping motherfuckers get jobs at NASA<\/p>\n<p>that is the tightest shit and if you don\u2019t like you can get off my blog<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>frantzfandom: shadesoffantasy: classictrek: Nichelle Nichols talks to a group of students at NASA Mission Control in 1977 and visits the Lewis Research center that same year. In the mid-1970s, Nichols has given a speech that criticized NASA for not selecting women and people of color as astronaut candidates. The agency\u2019s response was to hire her &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/10\/frantzfandom-shadesoffantasy-classictrek\/\" 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":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24147,3150,24148,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238627"}],"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=238627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238630,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238627\/revisions\/238630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}