{"id":45312,"date":"2017-02-10T12:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45312"},"modified":"2017-02-10T12:43:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:43:48","slug":"takei-in-pacific-overtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/02\/takei-in-pacific-overtures\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei In Pacific Overtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>George Takei<\/strong> will be seen in <strong>Stephen Sondheim<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Pacific Overtures<\/em> musical this spring.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Pacific Overtures<\/em>, a samurai and a fisherman are &#8220;caught up in the westernization of the East&#8221; in 1853.<\/p>\n<p>The story has parallels to today, says Takei. &#8220;[with] <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> being inflicted upon this country and throwing this country into chaos, [it] is not all that different from a time when Japan was forced to open itself up to the outside world and the uproar that followed. He&#8217;s not aware of the world that we live in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Pacific Overtures<\/em> begins performances on April 6 in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek&#8216;s George Takei will be seen in Stephen Sondheim&#8216;s Pacific Overtures musical this spring&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[9149,3185,2415],"class_list":["post-45312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-pacific-overtures","tag-play","tag-takei"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TakeiPacificOvertures021017.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\/45312","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=45312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45314,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45312\/revisions\/45314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}