{"id":7017,"date":"2015-03-03T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2015-03-03T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:06:39","slug":"this-just-in-nimoy-loved-sweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/03\/this-just-in-nimoy-loved-sweets\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In: Nimoy Loved Sweets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, man&#8230; just when I figure I&#8217;ve done my mourning for Leonard Nimoy and I&#8217;m ready to put the Kleenex away, I run across a personal <a href=\"http:\/\/la-confidential-magazine.com\/the-latest\/people-and-parties\/postings\/sweet-memories-a-tribute-to-leonard-nimoy\">remembrance<\/a> by his friend Nadine Schiff-Rosen and get another reminder of what a swell human being he must&#8217;ve been, and how I wish I&#8217;d actually known him:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>His eclectic love of confections knew no bounds: Vanilla macaroons, cream-filled \u00e9clairs, peanut butter brittle, custards, meringues, puddings, souffl\u00e9s\u2014I was lucky to watch him devour desserts around the world. Just as a botanist would feel at one with a rare orchid, so too would Leonard commune with a red velvet cupcake, exploring the icing, excavating the creamy center. Then, sliding the plate over to me, he would cry out, \u201c<strong>OH, YEAH<\/strong>,\u201d in a way that made me wonder if he and his sugary delight shouldn\u2019t get a room. And if he was met with resistance from me\u2014a self-deprecating remark about watching my weight, for example\u2014he would nudge the plate over to me further, his long, tapered fingers wordlessly ordering me to, \u201cTake a bite.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can just imagine the expression on his face at that moment too, that devilish glimmer in his eye and the arched eyebrow that said, &#8220;Go on&#8230; you know you want to&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/la-confidential-magazine.com\/the-latest\/people-and-parties\/postings\/sweet-memories-a-tribute-to-leonard-nimoy\">whole thing<\/a>. It&#8217;s not long, and it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, man&#8230; just when I figure I&#8217;ve done my mourning for Leonard Nimoy and I&#8217;m ready to put the Kleenex away, I run across a personal remembrance by his friend Nadine Schiff-Rosen and get another reminder of what a swell human being he must&#8217;ve been, and how I wish I&#8217;d actually known him: His eclectic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017","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=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}