{"id":23462,"date":"2020-01-24T14:34:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T22:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=23462"},"modified":"2020-01-24T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T22:34:27","slug":"23462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/01\/24\/23462\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1945,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.goodreads.com\\\/quotes\\\/558084-imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery-that-mediocrity-can&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260224100241\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.goodreads.com\\\/quotes\\\/558084-imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery-that-mediocrity-can&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 20:11:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 20:11:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ussf_or_starfleet.jpg\" alt=\"The US Space Force Logo is bascially the Starfleet logo\" title=\"ussf_or_starfleet.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"939\" height=\"788\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026If you&#8217;re going to steal, steal from the best, right?<\/p>\n<p>Or, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/558084-imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery-that-mediocrity-can\">in the words of Oscar Wilde<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well\u2026If you&#8217;re going to steal, steal from the best, right? Or, in the words of Oscar Wilde: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042,2047],"tags":[4097],"class_list":["post-23462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-politics","category-star-trek","tag-star-trek","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}