{"id":19592,"date":"2012-08-21T11:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T18:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=19592"},"modified":"2012-08-21T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T18:39:51","slug":"takei-on-media-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/08\/takei-on-media-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei On Media Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19595\" title=\"TakeiSulu022112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TakeiSulu022112.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For fans of <strong>George Takei<\/strong>, a new hour-long interview on <em>Media Mayhem<\/em> is now available on<em> YouTube<\/em> and can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p>Topics of discussion include Takei&#8217;s role on <em>Howard Stern<\/em>, his decision to come out of the closet, social media, <strong>William Shatner<\/strong>, and <em>Allegiance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Most of the time (second half of the interview) is spent by Takei talking about his family&#8217;s experience in an American concentration camp during World War Two. In an interesting revelation, Takei discusses his resentment regarding the imprisonment which surfaced after the war when he was a teen, and how his bitter words on the subject hurt his father.<\/p>\n<p>Takei has since come to terms with his family&#8217;s experience during World War II and has turned those experiences into the musical <em>Allegiance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdLp1br_03g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For fans of George Takei, a new hour-long interview on Media Mayhem is now available&#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],"tags":[4679,2415],"class_list":["post-19592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-media-mayhem","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>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592","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=19592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19601,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions\/19601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}