{"id":5696,"date":"2014-03-22T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2014-03-22T09:33:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:33:15","slug":"is-it-that-time-again-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/22\/is-it-that-time-again-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It That Time Again? Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/william-shatner-thennow_2014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5697 aligncenter\" alt=\"william-shatner-then+now_2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/william-shatner-thennow_2014.jpg\" width=\"377\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/william-shatner-thennow_2014.jpg 377w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/william-shatner-thennow_2014-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s become kind of a silly little tradition &#8212; admittedly observed somewhat sporadically &#8212; for me to honor the birthdays of two of the greatest pop-cultural icons of my generation who, by a strange coincidence, were born within days of one another. I&#8217;m referring of course to the actors William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, best known even after all these years as Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock on the original <em>Star Trek<\/em> series&#8230; shipmates, colleagues, and, most of all, <em>friends<\/em>, as these men apparently are in real life as well.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner preceded Nimoy into the world by just a few days, and today he is 83 years old. Eighty-three! So stop whatever you&#8217;re doing, pour yourself a cordial glass of Saurian brandy (the captain&#8217;s <em>real<\/em> favorite, before somebody dreamed up that silly Romulan ale stuff for the movies!), and raise a toast to the One True Kirk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Bill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become kind of a silly little tradition &#8212; admittedly observed somewhat sporadically &#8212; for me to honor the birthdays of two of the greatest pop-cultural icons of my generation who, by a strange coincidence, were born within days of one another. I&#8217;m referring of course to the actors William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, best [&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-5696","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\/5696","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=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}