{"id":178,"date":"2007-09-06T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T13:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2007-09-06T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T13:01:52","slug":"an-unnecessary-but-brief-rant-about-space-vajayjays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/an-unnecessary-but-brief-rant-about-space-vajayjays\/","title":{"rendered":"An unnecessary but brief rant about space vajayjays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it was a conscious decision to counter the phallicism necessarily dominant in rocket design — c’mon try an’ build a rocket that don’t look like a dork — but America’s first spaceport concept looks like an extraterrestrial vagina<\/a>. (Rather, what I suppose a space yoni might look like.)<\/p>\n

Sure, a hoo-ha is in the mind of the beholder, but perhaps there is a larger sexual metaphor here. If so, with spaceplanes entering the port, what metaphorical role do the passengers play? Ew. Enough. I’m being too crass. Still, it is being built by Virgin…<\/p>\n

It is a really cool looking design. Organic and futuristic, very all-caps EPCOT-neat. Pop-sci has more info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it was a conscious decision to counter the phallicism necessarily dominant in rocket design — c’mon try an’ build a rocket that don’t look like a dork — but America’s first spaceport concept looks like an extraterrestrial vagina. (Rather, what I suppose a space yoni might look like.) Sure, a hoo-ha is in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-2S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}