{"id":8194,"date":"2011-01-26T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8194"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","slug":"day-76-christmas-plate-give-and-day-77-star-trek-poster-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8194","title":{"rendered":"Day 76 &#8211; Christmas Plate (Give) and Day 77 &#8211; Star Trek Poster (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the folks we interact with on a regular basis are from our church and since all the small groups are doing the study on The Hole in Our Gospel journal,\u00a0it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to pass things on to them.\u00a0 They are all more conscientious about clutter and having too much stuff around! So Melissa sneaked a Christmas plate out yesterday.\u00a0 She filled it with applesauce bars and took it to a friend from church.\u00a0 When the friend offered to transfer the bars to another plate, Melissa told her not to bother, she could keep the plate.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/046-3.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s Give was several posters, including this vintage Star Trek poster.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember having this poster&#8230; maybe it actually belonged to one of my brothers.\u00a0 I looked at the back of it and it was copyrighted in 1978.\u00a0 I would have been ten years old and I can guarantee that I did not like Star Trek as a ten year old.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t come to appreciate the Star Trek universe until much later.\u00a0 Maybe I had the poster because I liked the U.S.S Enterprise even if I didn&#8217;t care for the show itself &#8211; it is one sweet ride. So I wanted to give this poster to someone who was a bonafide Trekkie.\u00a0 I offered it in my 7th grade class and several boys shot their hands up and requested it, but when I asked them to name some characters to prove who was the biggest fan, none of them could name any characters&#8230;\u00a0the closest one came was\u00a0&#8220;Dr. Spock&#8221;!\u00a0 I mean, these guys knew William Shatner was on the show but couldn&#8217;t name his character as Captain James T. Kirk!\u00a0 Trekkies my foot!\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like I was asking them to speak Klingon, for heaven&#8217;s sake.\u00a0 Ultimately, they were all deemed unworthy of my 33 year old poster&#8230; In the end, the poster was bestowed upon Nerd Supreme (from Day 49) 7th period.\u00a0 I know I&#8217;ve already given him something, but what can I say &#8230; I&#8217;ve got a soft spot for nerds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the folks we interact with on a regular basis are from our church and since all the small groups are doing the study on The Hole in Our Gospel journal,\u00a0it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to pass things on to them.\u00a0 They are all more conscientious about clutter and having too much stuff around! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8195,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions\/8195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}