{"id":614,"date":"2015-02-28T00:31:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T07:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/?p=614"},"modified":"2020-02-26T03:29:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T10:29:30","slug":"llap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/llap\/","title":{"rendered":"LLAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we lost Leonard Nimoy. You can read obits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/27\/arts\/television\/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2015\/02\/leonard-nimoy-dies-at-83\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was affected by it, no question, but I&#8217;m not quite\u00a0sure why. I&#8217;m not a huge Star Trek fan, nor was I particularly inspired by him. I do think he was a great actor, and a pretty stand up guy (the less I say about his music career the better). So I can&#8217;t quite\u00a0figure out why news of his passing saddened me.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because, despite having been\u00a0typecast to a certain degree as Spock and supposedly resisting it (the man wrote a book called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Am-Not-Spock-Leonard-Nimoy\/dp\/1568496915\">I Am Not Spock<\/a>&#8220;) he later embraced it (he wrote another book called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/I-Am-Spock-Leonard-Nimoy\/dp\/0786861827\/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1MEHQA7620S9DA6WB5TX\">I Am Spock<\/a>&#8220;) and was able to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WPkByAkAdZs\">laugh at himself<\/a> and enjoy his life.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I think Leonard Nimoy was a nice man and maybe why that his passing makes me sad. There aren&#8217;t too many nice guys in his chosen business, or in\u00a0the world in general, and we need more of them in this day and age.<\/p>\n<p>Live long and prosper, Leonard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we lost Leonard Nimoy. You can read obits here and here. I was affected by it, no question, but I&#8217;m not quite\u00a0sure why. I&#8217;m not a huge Star Trek&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}