{"id":5712,"date":"2009-06-21T02:51:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T01:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/shatner-i-had-hoped-to-be-amusing\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:38","slug":"shatner-i-had-hoped-to-be-amusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/06\/shatner-i-had-hoped-to-be-amusing\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: I Had Hoped To Be Amusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before appearing on <i>The Tonight Show With Conan O&#8217;Brien<\/i> several nights ago, <b>William Shatner<\/b> thought that his travel stories would fill the short time he had to interact with O&#8217;Brien before O&#8217;Brien went on to promote Shatner&#8217;s various projects.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/williamshatner\">The Shatner Project<\/a>, it wasn&#8217;t the travel stories that grabbed entertainment headlines, but his lack of ability to do a Vulcan salute, followed by Shatner&#8217;s own very human &#8220;salute&#8221; back at O&#8217;Brien, as reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/06\/shatner-misbehaving.html#more\">here<\/a> recently.<!--more-->&#8220;I&#8217;ve been cross-country many times and many ways and I thought it would be amusing to riff on some of the ways that I gotten across the country and various adventures that have happened,&#8221; explained Shatner, right before his appearance on the show. &#8220;So I hope that will be amusing enough to fill the ten minutes that I&#8217;ve got.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Mjv_Y6MUozQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Mjv_Y6MUozQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before appearing on The Tonight Show With Conan O&#8217;Brien several nights ago, William Shatner thought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2421],"tags":[2414,2753],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-tos","tag-shatner","tag-the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien"],"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-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712","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=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}