{"id":2798,"date":"2013-03-26T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2013-03-26T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:44:19","slug":"surely-the-best-of-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/26\/surely-the-best-of-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Surely&#8230; the Best of Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming hot on the heels of his co-star and partner-in-nerdy-fame William Shatner&#8217;s eighty-second birthday, Leonard Nimoy hits 82 himself today. To celebrate, here&#8217;s a photo of him with a little kitty:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/leonard-nimoy_w_cat-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2502\" alt=\"leonard-nimoy_w_cat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/leonard-nimoy_w_cat-249x300.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Shatner entry the other day, I said something about the influence he and Nimoy have exerted on me over the years. Here&#8217;s another example for you: some of the technical material I&#8217;ve been proofreading at work lately uses the word &#8220;sensor&#8221; fairly liberally. Every time I see that word in the copy, I don&#8217;t hear it in my mind the way most people say it, i.e., &#8220;sens-er.&#8221; Instead, I hear it in Nimoy&#8217;s voice, with his somewhat idiosyncratic way of saying the word in countless episodes of <em>Star Trek<\/em>, &#8220;sens-orrrrr.&#8221; I find that amusing. So happy birthday, Leonard&#8230; thanks for the pronunciation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming hot on the heels of his co-star and partner-in-nerdy-fame William Shatner&#8217;s eighty-second birthday, Leonard Nimoy hits 82 himself today. To celebrate, here&#8217;s a photo of him with a little kitty: In the Shatner entry the other day, I said something about the influence he and Nimoy have exerted on me over the years. Here&#8217;s [&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-2798","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\/2798","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=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}