{"id":255,"date":"2009-05-08T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=255"},"modified":"2009-05-08T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T11:19:10","slug":"mind_meld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/05\/mind_meld\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind meld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night, my friend Joe and I discovered that we will both be taking our Treky moms to see the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/paramount\/startrek\/\">Star Trek<\/a> <\/i>IMAX for Mother&#8217;s Day. Joe and I get along quite well, have similar jobs, etc. so there&#8217;s no great shock that our upbringings may have been alike, but we were wondering: is the Mother&#8217;s Day\/<i>Star Trek<\/i> movie correlation some kind of stealth marketing agenda? Are there great throngs of people with Treky mothers we don&#8217;t know about? Chauvenist norms would seem to dictate that releasing the movie around Father&#8217;s Day might sell more tickets, but perhaps not. <\/p>\n<p>Just goes to show that programming, perceived demographics and marketing campaigns sometimes align in mysterious ways. Having already bought our tickets in advance, my mom, sister and I will be getting to the Lincoln Center movie theater at 3pm tomorrow for a 4:30pm movie, should you need us. There is actually a Starfleet jumpsuit floating around our house in Connecticut somewhere; Mom, resistance is <i>not<\/i> futile &#8211; please don&#8217;t wear it to lunch and the movie. <\/p>\n<p>In similar news, is anyone running an interesting Mother&#8217;s Day promotion they&#8217;d like to share with the whole class? Leave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/05\/mind-meld.html#comments\">comment<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night, my friend Joe and I discovered that we will both be taking our Treky moms to see the Star Trek IMAX for Mother&#8217;s Day. Joe and I get along quite well, have similar jobs, etc. so there&#8217;s no great shock that our upbringings may have been alike, but we were wondering: is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}