{"id":1917,"date":"2010-03-26T23:53:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T23:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2010-03-26T23:53:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T23:53:46","slug":"good_wishes_for_a_couple_of_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/good_wishes_for_a_couple_of_bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Wishes for a Couple of Birthday Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/nimoy-and-shatner_april-2009.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has come to my attention that today is Leonard Nimoy&#8217;s 79th birthday. His <i>Star Trek<\/i> co-star and off-screen friend William Shatner turned 79 only a few days ago, on Monday. Strange to think that they&#8217;re so close to the same age, and even stranger to think of how advanced that age is getting to be.<\/p>\n<p>This is a morbid notion, but I find myself wondering how long one will outlast the other when time inevitably catches up to them. They&#8217;ve spent so much of their lives seemingly in parallel. When one of them finally passes away, will the survivor go on for years more, or will they be like a long-married couple who die within days of one another, unable to continue without their beloved?<\/p>\n<p>But that of course is in the future &#8212; hopefully, the distant future. For now, tonight, let us celebrate the friendship and longevity of two men who, 45 years ago, accepted what must&#8217;ve seemed like nothing more than a fun little acting job that might last a couple seasons, and ended up becoming icons and heroes to millions. Cheers, guys, and many happy returns!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has come to my attention that today is Leonard Nimoy&#8217;s 79th birthday. His Star Trek co-star and off-screen friend William Shatner turned 79 only a few days ago, on Monday. Strange to think that they&#8217;re so close to the same age, and even stranger to think of how advanced that age is getting to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}