{"id":11,"date":"2008-03-10T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-03-10T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T22:59:45","slug":"visions-of-michael-scrima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2008\/03\/10\/visions-of-michael-scrima\/","title":{"rendered":"Visions of Michael Scrima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago Brent Spiner, the actor who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation, released an album called &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ol'_Yellow_Eyes_Is_Back\">Ol&#8217; Yellow Eyes Is Back<\/a>.&quot;&#160; I&#8217;ve thought of it several times over the last few days, as Finn&#8217;s peepers (and skin) have had a decidedly yellowish hue.&#160; It&#8217;s pretty common for babies to have a little jaundice as their bodies learn to process <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bilirubin\">bilirubin<\/a> (which sounds like the name of someone&#8217;s accountant, but isn&#8217;t).&#160; Fortunately Finn seems well on his way to working it out of his system, and he&#8217;s pinking up nicely. <\/p>\n<p>The whole thing made me think of a cautionary character from my mom&#8217;s family&#8217;s past.&#160; My mom and her sisters (and subsequently the next generation of us kids) were always told, &quot;Don&#8217;t drink coffee, or you&#8217;ll end up yellow like Michael Scrima!&quot;&#160; Kids love hearing about this magical power of their parents&#8217; drink, not to mention getting to say &quot;<em>Screee<\/em>-ma.&quot;&#160; Poor Michael; who knows what happened to him, or why he was yellow, or whether he even <em>was<\/em> yellow at all.&#160; He&#8217;s probably at a Starbucks somewhere right now, enjoying some Grande Vente caffine bomb and wondering why his yellow ears are burning. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago Brent Spiner, the actor who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation, released an album called &quot;Ol&#8217; Yellow Eyes Is Back.&quot;&#160; I&#8217;ve thought of it several times over the last few days, as Finn&#8217;s peepers (and skin) have had a decidedly yellowish hue.&#160; It&#8217;s pretty common for babies to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}