{"id":45059,"date":"2016-12-19T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45059"},"modified":"2016-12-19T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:05:18","slug":"trek-actors-against-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/12\/trek-actors-against-bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek Actors Against Bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Shatner<\/strong> and some of the <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> actors have thrown their support to a good cause; ending bullying.<\/p>\n<p>The actors are promoting <em>Pop Culture Hero Coalition<\/em>, founded in 2013 by<strong> Chase Masterson<\/strong> and anti-bullying author\/expert <strong>Carrie Goldman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the actors participated in a t-shirt drive to raise money for the effort, with the proceeds &#8220;funding school programs by <em>Pop Culture Hero Coalition<\/em> to teach <em>Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations through school curriculum to children and teens, with an emphasis on work &#8211; free of charge &#8211; in schools that cannot afford programs to end bullying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trek actors involved include Shatner, Masterson, <strong>Terry Farrell, Nana Visitor, Armin Shimerman, Max Grodenchik, Jeff Combs, Casey Biggs<\/strong> and <strong>Hana Hatae<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We love our onscreen heroes,&#8221; said Masterson. &#8220;Why not be heroes, too? So many people have told us, &#8216;I wish you had this when I was in school.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To order one of the &#8220;Be Kind&#8221; shirts, head to the link located <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonfire.com\/bekind-for-2017\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shatner and some of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actors have thrown their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[3285,8705,2414],"class_list":["post-45059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-masterson","tag-pop-culture-hero-coalition","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BeKindNoBullying121916.jpg",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":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45059","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=45059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45061,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45059\/revisions\/45061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}