{"id":29541,"date":"2022-02-11T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29541"},"modified":"2022-02-10T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T23:02:12","slug":"in-other-shatner-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/11\/in-other-shatner-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Shatner News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British tabloid has a headline that clashes with the news immediately after the event:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/showbiz\/star-trek-legend-william-shatner-26188824\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Trek legend William Shatner confesses he &#8216;wasn&#8217;t impressed&#8217; after visiting space<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last autumn, when he actually took the trip, our stories were different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/13\/william-shatner-gives-90-minute-monologue-after-returning-from-space\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">William Shatner delivers spacey monologue to Bezos after Blue Origin launch<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEverybody in the world needs to do this!\u201d a tearful Shatner told the second-richest man in the world while others celebrated over champagne in the background.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see the moon come and whip by \u2014 now you\u2019re staring into blackness \u2014 that\u2019s the thing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe covering of blue, this blanket, this comforter of blue we have around us. We think, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s blue sky,\u2019 and all of a sudden you shoot through it and you whip the sheet off you and you\u2019re looking into blackness, into black nothingness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you look down, there\u2019s your blue down there with the black up there. There is Mother Earth and comfort and there is \u2014 is there death? I don\u2019t know. Is that the way death is?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so moving. This experience, it\u2019s something unbelievable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A British tabloid, making something up?  <em>Inconceivable!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British tabloid has a headline that clashes with the news immediately after the event: Star Trek legend William Shatner confesses he &#8216;wasn&#8217;t impressed&#8217; after visiting space Last autumn, when he actually took the trip, our stories were different. William Shatner delivers spacey monologue to Bezos after Blue Origin launch \u201cEverybody in the world needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29542,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29541\/revisions\/29542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}