{"id":12151,"date":"2011-06-02T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12151"},"modified":"2011-06-02T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T05:54:41","slug":"shatner-receives-honorary-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/06\/shatner-receives-honorary-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner Receives Honorary Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McGill University alumnus <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Letters today at the spring convocation ceremonies at McGill.<\/p>\n<p>The eighty-year-old Shatner graduated from McGill forty-nine years ago, with a BA in commerce.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ShatDeg.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12152\" title=\"ShatDeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ShatDeg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>Shatner encouraged graduates to dare. &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid of taking chances,&#8221; he said, &#8220;of striking out on paths that are untrod. Don&#8217;t be afraid of failing. Don&#8217;t be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look where I got.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When he attended McGill, Shatner wasn&#8217;t a model student, he told the graduates. He hadn&#8217;t always studied, he admitted, and had to take an extra math course to make up for one that he had earlier failed.<\/p>\n<p>But Shatner had been active in extracurricular activities; he was president of McGill&#8217;s radio club and had participated in campus theater productions.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner won&#8217;t be the only <em>Star Trek<\/em> actor to receive an honorary Doctorate<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/150Stewart.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12153\" title=\"150Stewart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/150Stewart.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> of Letters this year. <strong>Patrick Stewart <\/strong>will receive his own honorary degree this summer from the University of East Anglia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We present honorary degrees to those who have made a remarkable contribution to the arts, science, sport, and civil society,&#8221; said UEA Registrar and Secretary <strong>Brian Summers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGill University alumnus William Shatner was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Letters today at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442,2421],"tags":[2414,2440],"class_list":["post-12151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","category-star-trek-tos","tag-shatner","tag-stewart"],"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-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/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\/12151","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=12151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12160,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12151\/revisions\/12160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}