{"id":194,"date":"2011-01-28T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-01-28T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T19:10:22","slug":"zordaks-early-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Zordak&rsquo;s Early Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took a bit of time for Zordak to learn the ropes, so to speak. There were tendencies in the earlier contacts to transfer assumptions about how things work on this planet.<a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/takeme2guru1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"takeme2guru1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"takeme2guru1\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/takeme2guru1-thumb.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For example, unlike other sentient life forms, our species does not recognize the concept of spiritually enlightened beings, or foolishly confuses that state with mere wealth or celebrity. Some folks down here even imagine that political managers (or as we call them, elected officials) to be actually <em><strong>wiser <\/strong><\/em>than others, ignoring what one must do in order to get elected by peers with limited consciousness. <\/p>\n<p>He reported on the tragic outcome of the expedition of a friend of his:<a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/golfalien.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"golfalien\" border=\"0\" alt=\"golfalien\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/golfalien-thumb.jpg\" width=\"487\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it may be a lesson for your Star Trek fans that exploring life forms on other planets makes for many opportunities for misunderstanding: <a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gaspumpearthling1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"gaspumpearthling1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gaspumpearthling1\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/gaspumpearthling1-thumb.jpg\" width=\"513\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Oh, these were interesting times. Y\u2019all were all in a fluster about \u201cflying saucers\u201d and we were just trying to find someone with whom we could communicate without worrying about whether he or she would pull a gun on us. Finally, whew! we found Adam. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a bit of time for Zordak to learn the ropes, so to speak. There were tendencies in the earlier contacts to transfer assumptions about how things work on this planet. For example, unlike other sentient life forms, our species does not recognize the concept of spiritually enlightened beings, or foolishly confuses that state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}