{"id":29,"date":"2006-09-07T20:51:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T00:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-09-07T20:51:32","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T00:51:32","slug":"boldly-going-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Boldly going&#8230; nowhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burn the land and boil the sea, but you can&#8217;t bring the sky to James T.  In this amusing little nugget in the <a title=\"Captain Kirk reveals he won't go boldly into space\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/showbiz\/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=403931&amp;in_page_id=1773\">Daily Mail<\/a>, William Shatner reveals he turned down an offer by Richard Branson to reach the final frontier aboard Virgin Galactic.<\/p>\n<p>His reason: Shatner is scared by the prospect of space travel.  Yes, the man who&#8217;s fought vampire clouds, space hippies, and<a title=\"Adrian Zmed IMDB Listing\" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0957460\/\"> Adrian Zmed<\/a> admits he wouldn&#8217;t travel into orbit without some assurance of a safe return.  Guess all those episodes of Boston Legal have started to rub off!<\/p>\n<p>The Mail piece notes another far <a title=\"Sigourney Weaver IMDB Listing\" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0000244\/\">less fortunate Captain<\/a> has decided to take her chances in the shuttle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burn the land and boil the sea, but you can&#8217;t bring the sky to James T. In this amusing little nugget in the Daily Mail, William Shatner reveals he turned down an offer by Richard Branson to reach the final frontier aboard Virgin Galactic. His reason: Shatner is scared by the prospect of space travel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}