{"id":50597,"date":"2019-04-09T13:28:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=50597"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:29:55","slug":"fans-petition-for-obrien-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/04\/fans-petition-for-obrien-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Petition For O&#8217;Brien Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> and<em> Star Trek: DS9<\/em>&#8216;s actor <strong>Colm Meaney<\/strong> have created an online petition, with the goal of honoring the actor by having a statue erected in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Dublin, O&#8217;Brien is known to Trek fans as Miles O&#8217;Brien. When <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> debuted, he was moved over to that series as a main cast member.<\/p>\n<p>The petition creators will include the petition &#8220;to Dublin City Council to commission an artist to make a statue of <em>Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s Chief Miles O&#8217;Brien to be displayed on the streets of Dublin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Initially looking for a thousand signatures, as of this writing, the petition has more than double that at 2,461 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in signing? Head to the link located <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/build-a-statue-of-star-treks-chief-miles-obrien\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And no, the idea isn&#8217;t crazy. Other pop-culture characters have been honored. There is a RoboCop statue in Detroit, and one in Philadelphia of Rocky Balboa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: DS9&#8216;s actor Colm Meaney have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[9811,2540,3007,9810,3851],"class_list":["post-50597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-dublin","tag-meaney","tag-obrien","tag-petition","tag-statue"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ObrienMeaneyDublinCityCentreCBSBookingCom040919.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> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50597","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=50597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50600,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50597\/revisions\/50600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}