{"id":28073,"date":"2013-07-29T10:43:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=28073"},"modified":"2013-07-29T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:43:48","slug":"shatner-cross-country-motorcycle-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/07\/shatner-cross-country-motorcycle-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner Cross-Country Motorcycle Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28076\" title=\"ShatnerMotorcycle072913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ShatnerMotorcycle072913.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A call from Kentucky artist <strong>Douwe Blumberg <\/strong>to<strong> William Shatne<\/strong>r has led to plans for a cross-country motorcycle trip for the eighty-two-year-old Shatner.<\/p>\n<p>Known to Shatner as a former horse trader turned sculptor, Blumberg told Shatner that he wanted to do a motorcycle for his next project.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->And then, a chance encounter at a convention led to a motorcycle shop owner offering to make a custom motorcycle for Shatner, for free. &#8220;I said, &#8216;ooh!&#8221; said Shatner. &#8220;Because a motorcycle for free made for you; how could that be bad?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shatner decided that the motorcycle company, American Wrench, and Blumberg should get together, calling it a &#8220;practical way&#8221; to get the motorcycle art on a bike.<\/p>\n<p>After a flurry of phone calls, the motorcycle artwork is in progress and has expanded to three motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So the idea is, we&#8217;ll make three motorcycles,&#8221; said Shatner. &#8220;One I&#8217;ll take, and I&#8217;ll drive it from Chicago to L.A. And these other two will be for sale&#8230; we&#8217;ll announce it at some point, and we&#8217;ll sell two. &#8230; What a thrill to drive a motorcycle cross country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dVqtCzJ9hng\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A call from Kentucky artist Douwe Blumberg to William Shatner has led to plans for&#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":[6020,6017,2414],"class_list":["post-28073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-blumberg","tag-motorcycle-trip","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>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073","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=28073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28079,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions\/28079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}