{"id":1164,"date":"2009-03-22T00:05:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T06:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2009-03-22T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T19:58:14","slug":"happy-birthday-captain-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday Captain Kirk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All true trekkies (I&#8217;m not one, but I sure do like Star Trek and it&#8217;s offspring) know that today is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shatner\">William Shatner&#8217;s <\/a>birthday.\u00a0 The list of TV series and shows and movies that this Canadian-born actor has appeared in is truly impressive, but for I, and I suspect most people my age, he will always be &#8220;Captain Kirk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, my two favorite YouTube clips of him show him outside of his Captain Kirk role.<\/p>\n<p>First is his immortal rendition of &#8216;Rocket Man&#8217;;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, here, acting in the role of Denny Crane,\u00a0is his absolutely classic defense of guns and the right to self-defense;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yJ7cfr9Lso&amp;feature=related[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday Captain Kirk &#8211; live long and prosper!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All true trekkies (I&#8217;m not one, but I sure do like Star Trek and it&#8217;s offspring) know that today is William Shatner&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0 The list of TV series and shows and movies that this Canadian-born actor has appeared in is truly impressive, but for I, and I suspect most people my age, he will always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}