{"id":5642,"date":"2009-05-18T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/prez-gives-star-trek-xi-the-thumbs-up\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:43","slug":"prez-gives-star-trek-xi-the-thumbs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/05\/prez-gives-star-trek-xi-the-thumbs-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Prez Gives Star Trek XI The Thumbs Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Star Trek XI<\/i> has been seen by fans ranging from astronauts on the International Space Station, to the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/\">Newsweek Magazine<\/a>, President Obama, who is sometimes compared to Spock by his admirers, saw <i>Star Trek XI<\/i> in the White House theater. &#8220;&#8230;it turns out we got this nice theater on the ground floor of my house,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;So <i>Star Trek<\/i>, we saw this weekend, which I thought was good. Everybody was saying I was Spock, so I figured I should check it out and&#8230;&#8221; The President then made the Vulcan split-fingered salute for the reporters.<!--more-->Obama admitted to being a fan of <i>Star Trek<\/i> from his childhood days. &#8220;I used to love <i>Star Trek<\/i>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, <i>Star Trek<\/i> was ahead of its time. There was a whole, the special effects weren&#8217;t real good, but the storylines were always evocative, you know, there was a little commentary and a little pop philosophy for a ten-year-old to absorb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/197891\/page\/4\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek XI has been seen by fans ranging from astronauts on the International Space&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2404],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-obama"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642","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=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}