{"id":11675,"date":"2011-03-30T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:04:32","slug":"shatner-energized-at-eighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/03\/shatner-energized-at-eighty\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: Energized At Eighty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that the man who portrayed Captain Kirk is eighty, but <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> is not letting age slow him down one bit.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner has learned valuable lessons about life in those eighty years, including what is important to him, as well as the value of <em>Star Trek <\/em>fans.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kirk0307111.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11676\" title=\"Kirk030711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kirk0307111.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s difficult for Shatner to believe that he has reached his eightieth birthday. &#8220;[My] eightieth birthday, it seems so foreign to me that it&#8217;s a like a weed in my mouth,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I hear eightieth birthday and I can&#8217;t believe it. I don&#8217;t know [how I&#8217;ve done it]; I just know that health is a huge factor. I&#8217;ve been lucky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel more creative, more energized and better equipped as an actor and as a creative mind now than I ever had in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shatner hosts several TV shows, stars in <em>$#*! My Dad Says<\/em>, has a new book and a new record coming out, does charity work and breeds horses and takes part in riding competitions. But he still finds time to attend <em>Star Trek<\/em> conventions, at which he finds the interaction of fans to be enjoyable. &#8220;I wrote a book called <em>Get a Life<\/em>, which was about the constituency of the audience [at conventions],&#8221; he said. &#8220;I discovered they came to see each other; they were renewing their friendships that had gone on for years; they brought their husbands and wives, and they brought their children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s kind of warm and nice and lacks the coldness of the Twitter and the modern viral age. It has the immediacy of human connection, so I do enjoy it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe that the man who portrayed Captain Kirk is eighty, but William&#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":[2414],"class_list":["post-11675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-shatner"],"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\/11675","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=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11678,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions\/11678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}