{"id":9008,"date":"2010-04-27T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2010-04-27T20:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T03:37:49","slug":"scottish-politician-is-a-trek-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/04\/scottish-politician-is-a-trek-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Politician Is A Trek Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <strong>Barak Obama<\/strong> isn&#8217;t the only politician who is a <em>Star Trek<\/em> fan.<\/p>\n<p>Many fans know that various American politicians, such as Obama, <strong>Al Gore <\/strong>and<strong> Scooter Libby<\/strong> are <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans, but politicians from other countries enjoy the various series too.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Salmond042710.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9009\" title=\"Salmond042710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Salmond042710-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The newest politician to embrace his Trek geekiness and reveal his favorite <em>Star Trek<\/em> series is Scotland&#8217;s First Minister, <strong>Alex Salmond<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am an obsessive Trekkie. <em>Voyager<\/em> was my favorite, that and first series <em>Star Trek<\/em>. I\u2019ve seen them all so many times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some politicians and royalty do more than just watch <em>Star Trek<\/em> or visit the sets of a series. King Abdullah II of Jordan appeared in an episode of <em>Star Trek: Voyager <\/em>(<em>Investigations<\/em>) where, as an uncredited extra, he played the role of a science officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barak Obama isn&#8217;t the only politician who is a Star Trek fan. Many fans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[3183],"class_list":["post-9008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-salmond"],"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\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008","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=9008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9010,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9008\/revisions\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}