{"id":11933,"date":"2011-05-05T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T22:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2011-05-05T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T22:35:37","slug":"shatner-to-receive-honorary-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/05\/shatner-to-receive-honorary-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner To Receive Honorary Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> will return home to receive an honorary degree from McGill University.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner graduated from McGill University in 1952, with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ShatnerStock1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11935\" title=\"ShatnerStock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ShatnerStock1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>According to the McGill University website, &#8220;McGill University will mark the achievements of one of its most celebrated alumni, Emmy-winning actor William Shatner, with the awarding of an honorary degree at Spring Convocation ceremonies on June 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shatner&#8230;has made a stellar contribution to the arts, on stage, television and film. He is also an accomplished director, a best-selling author and dedicated philanthropist and environmentalist, whose compassion, creativity and irrepressible sense of humor are an integral part of his life and work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The honorary degree will be presented during Convocation ceremonies for the Faculty of Arts, at 10 a.m., Thursday, June 2 on the lower field of McGill\u2019s downtown campus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek&#8216;s William Shatner will return home to receive an honorary degree from McGill University&#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":[3628,2414],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-mcgill-university","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\/11933","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=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11937,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}