{"id":605,"date":"2004-09-18T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2004\/09\/18\/605\/"},"modified":"2012-02-27T20:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T01:13:44","slug":"605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Trans-Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Follow-Up<\/span>: I did a web search on Doctor Joy Shaffer, the author of the interesting article on the future of space exploration that I reviewed in my last entry.  It appears that she runs a medical practice that specializes in cross dressers and transexuals, offering services such as body hair removal, fat injections and hormone therapy (actually, she is formerly a he herself).  She\u2019s based in California, of course.  Talk about boldly going where no one else has gone!  Are there many astronauts in drag out there?  Perhaps David Bowie\u2019s <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Major Tom<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I couldn\u2019t resist the snicker.  I realize that Dr. Shaffer provides professional medical services to people with \u201ctransgender\u201d issues.  But geez, what an eclectic set of interests \u2013 space technology and transexuality.<\/p>\n<p>And then again, that\u2019s the trend here in modern America.  Because of education and television with a zillion channels and big bookstores and the internet, people today have a million different things that they can get interested in.  It\u2019s like a great big smorgasbord, where everyone takes a different combination of foods to make a meal.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Almost no one<\/span> these days has the same set of interests.  If you\u2019re taken by Amish quilts and do some quilting yourself, there\u2019s no reason that you can\u2019t also be a big fan of Latin dancing or college hockey.  The average slob that you see watching an NFL game while drinking a beer may also be an expert on the construction of the Pyramids.  Someone big into NASCAR racing and tennis may also be interested in forest mushrooms.  A person who has voluntarily studied the history of Christian monasticism and the anti-poverty movement in America may also be interested in railroads and collecting stamps (hey, sounds like me!).<\/p>\n<p>So what the heck.  To paraphrase the old Chinese curse, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">\u201cmay you live in eclectic times\u201d<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow-Up: I did a web search on Doctor Joy Shaffer, the author of the interesting article on the future of space exploration that I reviewed in my last entry. It appears that she runs a medical practice that specializes in cross dressers and transexuals, offering services such as body hair removal, fat injections and hormone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}