{"id":13348,"date":"2011-11-15T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T19:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13348"},"modified":"2011-11-15T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T19:43:44","slug":"shatner-beware-exploding-turkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/11\/shatner-beware-exploding-turkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: Beware Exploding Turkeys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the American Thanksgiving holiday approaching, <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> and insurance company State Farm have created &#8220;<em>Eat, Fry, Love<\/em>,&#8221; a tongue-in-cheek video warning about the dangers of turkey fryers.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner has used a turkey fryer himself in the past. &#8220;I love to fry turkey and have been doing it for years but I am not immune to frying accidents,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ShatnerStock1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13352\" title=\"ShatnerStock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ShatnerStock1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The actor is well-qualified to speak to the public regarding turkey fryer accidents, having been the victim of one himself. &#8220;In fact, my family now gathers together to watch my mishaps,&#8221; Shatner said. &#8220;Several years ago I was even burned on my arms after accidently dropping the turkey in the hot oil. People need to remember that hot oil and turkey can be a dangerous combination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video dramatizes Shatner&#8217;s own deep-fryer experience. Tips are given at the end of the video regarding how to properly use a turkey fryer, which include a caution about using too much oil, when to turn off the turkey fryer flame, where to fry the turkey (away from the house and not on a wooden deck), turkey preparation prior to deep frying and keeping a grease-fire-approved extinguisher nearby when using the deep fryer.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/EYkRF_FmD40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the American Thanksgiving holiday approaching, William Shatner and insurance company State Farm have created&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2414,3844],"class_list":["post-13348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-shatner","tag-turkey"],"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":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348","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=13348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13353,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions\/13353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}