{"id":42779,"date":"2016-02-19T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=42779"},"modified":"2016-02-19T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:18:25","slug":"shatner-on-friendship-and-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/02\/shatner-on-friendship-and-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner On Friendship And Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Shatner<\/strong> is out and about promoting his book <em>Leonard: My 50 Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man<\/em>, and the actor spoke to the <em>BBC<\/em> about his friend <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong> and the nature of friendship in the world of acting.<\/p>\n<p>According to Shatner, due to the transient nature of acting, friendships may be made quickly but often fade when actors move on to other projects, in spite of best efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Solid connections are difficult to make,&#8221;\u00a0 said Shatner. &#8220;and I cherish the one I had with Leonard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shatner wanted fans to know that &#8220;I had a wonderful friendship with Leonard Nimoy.&#8221; He was &#8220;dear to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The short video can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-35607543\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shatner is out and about promoting his book Leonard: My 50 Year Friendship with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,2413],"tags":[8761,2409,2414],"class_list":["post-42779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-cast-crew","tag-friendship","tag-nimoy","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ShatnerNimoy021916.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\/books\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Books<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42779","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=42779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42781,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42779\/revisions\/42781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}