{"id":24509,"date":"2013-04-10T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=24509"},"modified":"2013-04-10T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:55:04","slug":"takei-wins-shorty-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/04\/takei-wins-shorty-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei Wins Shorty Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24512\" title=\"TakeiShortyAward041013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/TakeiShortyAward041013.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Takei<\/strong> was one of the recipients of a <em>Shorty Award<\/em>, handed out Monday at the 5th Annual <em>Shorty Award<\/em>s Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Shorty Awards<\/em> &#8220;honor the best in social media; recognizing the people and organizations producing real-time short content across <em>Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Foursquare<\/em> and the rest of the social web.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Takei received his award for <em>Distinguished Achievement in Internet Culture<\/em>. He beat out the popular <em>Internet<\/em> Grumpy Cat for the honor.<\/p>\n<p>Takei&#8217;s acceptance speech can be seen below. Other winners can be seen at this <a href=\"http:\/\/shortyawards.com\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SK_DUW7N830\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Takei was one of the recipients of a Shorty Award, handed out Monday at&#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":[2484,5531,2415],"class_list":["post-24509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-award","tag-shorty-award","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":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24509","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=24509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24515,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24509\/revisions\/24515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}