{"id":5707,"date":"2014-03-26T23:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T05:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2014-03-26T23:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T05:27:54","slug":"leonards-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/26\/leonards-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard&#8217;s Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/leonard-nimoy_thennow_2014.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5708 aligncenter\" alt=\"leonard-nimoy_then+now_2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/leonard-nimoy_thennow_2014.png\" width=\"377\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/leonard-nimoy_thennow_2014.png 377w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/leonard-nimoy_thennow_2014-300x156.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t let this long and hectic day end without attending to one final duty, albeit a pleasurable one, and that&#8217;s wishing the unsurpassable Leonard Nimoy a very happy 83rd birthday. (He <em>is<\/em> unsurpassed, in my opinion, despite a new generation thinking his signature character &#8212; the logical Mr. Spock &#8212; now belongs to a kid named Zachary Quinto. Despite all the fuss people have made of Quinto&#8217;s performance as in the Abrams-Trek movies, I can&#8217;t see that he&#8217;s doing anything more than an <em>impression<\/em> of Nimoy&#8217;s Spock. And Chevy Chase did that much in that old <em>SNL<\/em> sketch some 40 years ago!)<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Leonard is not quite as hale and hearty as his castmate, Bill Shatner. &#8220;Grandpa,&#8221; as Nimoy has taken to calling himself on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealNimoy\">Twitter<\/a>, has lately been seen in public toting around an oxygen tank, the consequence of a lifetime of smoking. It saddens me to think of time and unhealthy choices catching up with my childhood heroes, and I sincerely hope he&#8217;s not in too much discomfort&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(I also hope there&#8217;s a chance he might show up at the Salt Lake Comic Con FanX convention next month, as I suspect I may be running out of chances to meet him&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t let this long and hectic day end without attending to one final duty, albeit a pleasurable one, and that&#8217;s wishing the unsurpassable Leonard Nimoy a very happy 83rd birthday. (He is unsurpassed, in my opinion, despite a new generation thinking his signature character &#8212; the logical Mr. Spock &#8212; now belongs to a [&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-5707","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\/5707","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=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}