{"id":10959,"date":"2010-12-16T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2010-12-16T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T23:40:14","slug":"takei-dont-let-the-bedbugs-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/12\/takei-dont-let-the-bedbugs-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei: Don&#8217;t Let The Bedbugs Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George Takei<\/strong> made the unpleasant acquaintance of a New York nuisance recently when he and husband <strong>Brad Altman<\/strong> visited the city.<\/p>\n<p>New Yorkers have been on guard for a while against a pesky parasitic insect, the Cimex lectularius, better-known as the bedbug, which is showing up in apartments, offices, the subway and movie theaters.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Takei080210.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10960\" title=\"Takei080210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Takei080210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Takei and Altman were in New York earlier this month, he told radio D.J. <strong>Howard Stern<\/strong>, and stayed in their apartment where the bedbugs had evidently taken up residence. &#8220;We were (in New York) last month and nothing happened,&#8221; said Takei, &#8220;and then this month, I&#8217;ve been eaten alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Takei thinks he knows from where the biting bugs came. &#8220;Brad and I go to the theater a lot, and I think they must have been in the seats. There&#8217;s no other way we could have gotten them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Takei made the unpleasant acquaintance of a New York nuisance recently when he and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[3464,2415],"class_list":["post-10959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-bedbugs","tag-takei"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}