{"id":35201,"date":"2014-07-21T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=35201"},"modified":"2014-07-21T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T18:10:25","slug":"cumberbatch-as-turing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/07\/cumberbatch-as-turing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumberbatch As Turing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35198\" alt=\"CumberbatchTuring072114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CumberbatchTuring072114.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A preview of <em>The Imitation Game,<\/em> starring <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch <\/strong>as<strong> Alan Turing<\/strong>, has been released.<\/p>\n<p>Turing was a brilliant computer scientist, mathematician, and is considered the father of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->During World War II, Turing was able to crack Germany&#8217;s <em>Enigma Code<\/em>, considered an unbreakable code at the time. Being able to read the Germans&#8217; coded messages helped the allies to eventually win World War II, and no doubt saved thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<p>Turing was not appreciated in his time, due to the fact that he was gay when that was not accepted and was considered to be a crime. He was forced to undergo a chemical castration to avoid jail, and eventually committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Imitation Game<\/em> releases November 21.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fg85ggZSHMw\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preview of The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, has been released&#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":[3928,7511,5330],"class_list":["post-35201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-cumberbatch","tag-the-imitation-game","tag-turing"],"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":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201","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=35201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35204,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35201\/revisions\/35204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}