{"id":605,"date":"2006-04-17T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant2\/2006\/04\/lest-i-forget-reaching-through-the-time-vortex.html"},"modified":"2006-04-17T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T02:42:00","slug":"lest-i-forget-reaching-through-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/2006\/04\/lest-i-forget-reaching-through-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Lest I Forget (Reaching Through The Time Vortex)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I was reminded of the other day&#8230;<br \/>It was the mid to late 1980s. While girls around me were gawking over the pretty boys in Teen Beat, this is who made me feel all giddy (ok, I was gawking a little at those boys too ;):<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s6.photobucket.com\/albums\/y219\/teknevision\/m_wilson.jpg\"><br \/>I don&#8217;t remember how I first saw him. All the Ray Bradbury I had been reading a couple of years before probably had something to do with his appeal. Or maybe it was that third eye. Whatever. I thought he was beautiful. I think he was actually the first &#8220;older man&#8221; I had a crush on. I had forgetten about him for a while until 1996 when I read that he passed away. Some memories came back to me. It was also the same year Tupac, Ella and Gene Kelly moved on. I guess this is an anniversary of sorts for them all. And a reminder for me that there are still some pieces I need to pull over from back then. So here I am, thinking about the time in 1996 when I had been thinking about a period during the mid to late 1980s. What an interesting cycle of reminders and musings. I suppose that happens. It&#8217;s a way of keeping me connected to other times and parts of myself. Much like a tattoo would. Mike Wilson would&#8217;ve been around 54 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I was reminded of the other day&#8230;It was the mid to late 1980s. While girls around me were gawking over the pretty boys in Teen Beat, this is who made me feel all giddy (ok, I was gawking a little at those boys too ;):I don&#8217;t remember how I first saw him. All the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}