{"id":9480,"date":"2010-06-16T14:14:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9480"},"modified":"2010-06-16T14:14:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:14:35","slug":"shatner-my-lifetime-achievement-is-my-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/06\/shatner-my-lifetime-achievement-is-my-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner: My Lifetime Achievement Is My Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Shatner<\/strong>, at the Banff World Television Festival to receive a lifetime achievement award, showed a more serious side of himself.<\/p>\n<p>Usually Shatner pokes fun at himself, or wisecracks when asked questions, but there is a more serious side to the actor and the Banff audience heard of his sometimes difficult journey through life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ShatnerStock1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9481\" title=\"ShatnerStock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ShatnerStock1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>&#8220;My life was a series of pools of loneliness [from] which every so often I was able to emerge with some companionship, and subdue that dreadful feeling that had dogged me for much of my life,&#8221; Shatner told the audience. &#8220;And frequently even with the kudos I was receiving, I was not happy with the private part of my existence. But slowly I changed. The drill that life puts you through can make you or break you, and fortunately I became more comfortable with relationships and slowly evolved in reaching out to friends and family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shatner found out early in life that he loved the attention that came with acting. After performing a play at a summer camp outside of Montreal, his father &#8220;proudly held me in his arms and showed me to his friends, and it was the siren song of fame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actor choked up as he dedicated his award to his wife, Elizabeth. &#8220;My lifetime achievement is being married to her, and every day reminding myself that sustaining a marriage is in itself the achievement of a lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Shatner<\/strong>, in tears during the speech, said, &#8220;I was totally overwhelmed&#8230;and consumed by love. It&#8217;s his lifetime achievement award, but I would thank him for taking me on the adventure of a lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shatner, at the Banff World Television Festival to receive a lifetime achievement award, showed&#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":[2484,3279,2414],"class_list":["post-9480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-award","tag-banff-world-television-festival","tag-shatner"],"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\/9480","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=9480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9482,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9480\/revisions\/9482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}