{"id":32156,"date":"2014-01-30T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=32156"},"modified":"2014-01-30T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:17:12","slug":"nimoy-addresses-concerns-about-his-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/01\/nimoy-addresses-concerns-about-his-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimoy Addresses Concerns About His Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32159\" alt=\"Nimoy013014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Nimoy013014.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A senior citizen in a wheelchair at a large airport usually doesn&#8217;t merit a second glance, but when it was <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong> and he was seen using oxygen, <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans took notice.<\/p>\n<p>The actor was being wheeled through a New York airport on Monday when the photos were taken and fans expressed their concern regarding his use of oxygen after seeing the photos.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Today, the actor addressed his fan base via his <em>Twitter<\/em> feed, explaining why he was seen using oxygen. &#8220;I quit smoking thirty years ago,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Not soon enough. I have COPD.&#8221; [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grandpa says, quit now!! LLAP&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior citizen in a wheelchair at a large airport usually doesn&#8217;t merit a second&#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":[6824,2409],"class_list":["post-32156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-health","tag-nimoy"],"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":"11","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156","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=32156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32162,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156\/revisions\/32162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}