{"id":42317,"date":"2015-12-11T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=42317"},"modified":"2015-12-10T22:36:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T06:36:28","slug":"shatners-secret-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/12\/shatners-secret-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner&#8217;s Secret of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Shatner<\/strong> explained why he is still so active at the age of eighty-four.<\/p>\n<p>According to the actor, it&#8217;s a matter of understanding what one needs and then fulfilling it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It boils down to making choices that play a creative chord deep inside of you,&#8221; said Shatner. &#8220;You hear that chord, and you make your decisions not necessarily based on knowledge but instead based on a feeling of rightness. It&#8217;s not unlike a salesman who says, &#8216;I don&#8217;t care if I\u2019m selling a refrigerator or a beach ball. The whole point is the art of the sell, of seeing what your need is, and making you understand that such a need can only be filled by your buying a beach ball.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re tuned in to the feeling \u2014 I&#8217;m being specific about my life now \u2014 if you&#8217;re tuned in to the feeling, the correctness of it, you can say, &#8216;This feels good,&#8217; or &#8216;This feels bad,&#8217; and your decisions will at least be accurate for you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chords that are played musically inside you, you have to learn to recognize them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shatner explained why he is still so active at the age of eighty-four. According&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2414],"class_list":["post-42317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ShatnerStock081913.gif",580,225,false]},"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":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317","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=42317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42319,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317\/revisions\/42319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}