{"id":577,"date":"2011-07-01T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=577"},"modified":"2011-07-01T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:58:46","slug":"friday-poetry-small-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; Small Smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Small Smiles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the little things sometimes<br \/>\nWhich bring a smile to my face<br \/>\nA word from a friend<br \/>\nA favorite old TV show<br \/>\nA kitten being a kitten<br \/>\nThey fill my heart<br \/>\nWarm my soul<br \/>\nThe warmth spreads out<br \/>\nMoves up<br \/>\nUntil my lips curl<br \/>\nAnd I can&#8217;t help but smile<br \/>\nThese are the joys<br \/>\nThe moments we live for<br \/>\nLaughter is good<br \/>\nLove is even better<br \/>\nBut it is the small smiles<br \/>\nWhich get us through<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I recently purchased the entire original Star Trek series, remastered.\u00a0 Last night I watched an episode which was supposed to be one of the finest examples of the remastering, <em>The Doomsday Machine<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not necessarily one of my favorite episodes but it is certainly one which has stuck in my mind throughout the years.\u00a0 It features one of the worst, most obviously fake, fight scenes ever filmed.\u00a0 But watching it made me smile.\u00a0 Not for the remastering, or even the amusingly bad fight, but just for the nostalgia of it.\u00a0 I am a <em>Trek<\/em> fan&#8211;Trekker or Trekkie, whichever you prefer&#8211;and it just warmed me to watch the old crew doing their thing.\u00a0 Thus, the above poem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week.\u00a0 See you Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Smiles &nbsp; It&#8217;s the little things sometimes Which bring a smile to my face A word from a friend A favorite old TV show A kitten being a kitten They fill my heart Warm my soul The warmth spreads out Moves up Until my lips curl And I can&#8217;t help but smile These are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}