{"id":9784,"date":"2019-03-22T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9784"},"modified":"2019-03-22T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T06:01:10","slug":"happy-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/22\/happy-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 88!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shatner_2018_cigar-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shatner_2018_cigar-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another year, another birthday for the one and only William Shatner, 88 years young today.<\/p>\n<p>Although his latest television series <em>Better Late Than Never<\/em> (which I wrote about on his birthday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2018\/03\/happy-birthday-mr-shatner\/\">last year<\/a>, and from which today&#8217;s photo was snatched) was cancelled after two seasons, the irrepressible man of the hour isn&#8217;t letting that slow him down. He&#8217;s a force to reckoned with on Twitter; his annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horseshow.org\/\">Hollywood Charity Horse Show<\/a> is coming up in June; he&#8217;s hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/williamshatnertour.com\/\">screenings <\/a>of <em>The Wrath of Khan<\/em> at various locations around the country (sadly, none in Salt Lake!); and he has a number of conventions on the <a href=\"http:\/\/williamshatner.com\/ws\/bills-appearances\/\">calendar<\/a>, as well as a <em>Star Trek<\/em> cruise a year from now in March 2020. As I&#8217;ve said before, I admire his vitality and drive to stay engaged, to stay curious, and to keep having fun. I hope I age with a fraction of that grace.<\/p>\n<p>So happy birthday to the once and future Captain Kirk&#8230; and as always, my offer to buy him a celebratory drink applies any time he (a) hears about it and (b) wants to take me up on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another birthday for the one and only William Shatner, 88 years young today. Although his latest television series Better Late Than Never (which I wrote about on his birthday last year, and from which today&#8217;s photo was snatched) was cancelled after two seasons, the irrepressible man of the hour isn&#8217;t letting that slow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","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=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}