{"id":9429,"date":"2010-06-10T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:01:42","slug":"peta-to-crash-star-trek-live-at-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/06\/peta-to-crash-star-trek-live-at-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"PETA To Crash Star Trek Live At NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek<\/em> fans looking forward to the debut of <em>Star Trek Live<\/em> tomorrow at the Kennedy Space Center will have to put up with the antics of PETA first.<\/p>\n<p>PETA will end up being a P.I.T.A. for Trek fans, as the group plans on dressing up as &#8220;Trekkies&#8221; to greet visitors, according to a press release from the organization.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The protest by PETA coincides with the opening of NASA&#8217;s <em>Star Trek Live<\/em> stage show. While some PETA members will be dressed as &#8220;Trekkies,&#8221; others, will hold signs that read &#8220;NASA: Let Animals Live Long and Prosper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PETA&#8217;s beef is with NASA funding radiation experiments on monkeys. &#8220;NASA should be ashamed of squandering nearly $2 million of the public&#8217;s money on a wasteful project that harms animals and won&#8217;t protect astronauts,&#8221; said PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations <strong>Kathy Guillermo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>PETA has come under fire in the past with its own record on animal treatment, with claims that they euthanized ninety-six percent of the animals taken in to its American headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia in one year. Figures given to Virginia state officials claim that in the last decade, the &#8220;pro-animal&#8221; organization euthanized 20,000 pets.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps instead of dressing up as &#8220;Trekkies,&#8221; and harassing <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans and other Kennedy Space Center visitors, PETA should get its own house in order first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek fans looking forward to the debut of Star Trek Live tomorrow at the&#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":[3155,3270,2962],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-peta","tag-star-trek-live"],"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\/9429","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=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9431,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions\/9431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}