{"id":8248,"date":"2010-01-25T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T00:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2010-01-26T00:35:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T08:35:55","slug":"nimoy-wants-root-connection-to-vulcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/01\/nimoy-wants-root-connection-to-vulcan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimoy Wants Root Connection to Vulcan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong> hopes that his trip to Vulcan, Alberta, Canada is more to him than just a chance to meet up with fans and admirers.<\/p>\n<p>Nimoy will be appearing in Vulcan, as reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/01\/spock-is-coming-home\/\">TrekToday<\/a>, on April 23 as part of a comic book and entertainment convention being held in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8249\" title=\"LeonardNimoy01222010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/LeonardNimoy012220101.gif\" alt=\"LeonardNimoy01222010\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to making a root connection to Vulcan,&#8221; said  Nimoy, who also wants to &#8220;shake some hands&#8221; and &#8220;make some friends&#8221; during his brief visit to the small town of 1,900 residents.<\/p>\n<p>Nimoy went on to talk about his roots, specifically how he no longer felt rooted to his hometown of Boston. &#8220;&#8221;I grew up in the city of Boston in a neighborhood I felt very connected to,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The neighborhood was subsequently torn down and replaced by many expensive high-rise condominiums. When I go back there I feel rootless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nimoy was responsible for getting a special screening of <em>Star Trek XI<\/em> held in Calgary last year, to which many Vulcan residents were bused for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Vulcan was named in 1915 and began its association with <em>Star Trek<\/em> in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Nimoy hopes that his trip to Vulcan, Alberta, Canada is more to him than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2409,2548],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-nimoy","tag-vulcan"],"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\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <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\/8248","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=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}