{"id":52436,"date":"2020-03-23T13:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=52436"},"modified":"2020-03-23T13:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:41:49","slug":"stewart-reads-sonnets-and-captain-kirk-is-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2020\/03\/stewart-reads-sonnets-and-captain-kirk-is-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Reads Sonnets And Captain Kirk Is Posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to help people stay calm through a stressful time, <strong>Sir Patrick Stewart<\/strong> has taken to reading sonnets from <strong>William Shakespeare<\/strong> to Stewart&#8217;s more than three million social media followers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was delighted by the response to yesterday&#8217;s posting of Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Sonnet 116<\/em>,&#8221; said Stewart; &#8220;and it has led me to undertake what follows. &#8220;When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn&#8217;t much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, &#8216;An apple a day keeps the doctor away.&#8217; How about, &#8216;A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away?&#8217; So&#8230;here we go: Sonnet 1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/769341148\/rJWoNu3gLM_default\/index.html?videoId=6144138797001\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stewart&#8217;s not the only <em>Star Trek<\/em> captain trying to keep up fan spirits. <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> is posting daily Captain&#8217;s Logs on social media as Captain Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo to those trying to cheer us up in these trying times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to help people stay calm through a stressful time, Sir Patrick Stewart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2418,3361,2414,10023,2440],"class_list":["post-52436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-kirk","tag-shakespeare","tag-shatner","tag-sonnets","tag-stewart"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/StewartShakespeareSonnetsTHR032320.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; 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