{"id":1079,"date":"2011-05-29T07:48:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2012-08-31T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T20:15:40","slug":"positive-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/29\/positive-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1080\" href=\"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1080\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1080\" title=\"george_takei_blur_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/george_takei_blur_sm-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/george_takei_blur_sm-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/george_takei_blur_sm.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday my family and I drove into Phoenix for our second day of the Phoenix Comicon. While walking in front of the convention center, a bunch of suits piled out of a huge black limousine. Oos and ahs and \u201cwho is that\u201d whispers swirled around when, suddenly, I spotted a shorter fellow not wearing a suit. \u201cThat\u2019s George Takei,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My youngest asked, \u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSulu,\u201d my eldest said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I felt pretty good seeing not just a celebrity, but one of the most important ones in the Star Trek universe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When we got inside the convention center, Mr. Takei, surrounded by the suits, was waiting for an elevator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I ripped out my camera. \u201cMr. Takei,\u201d I said. \u201cWould you mind if I took your picture?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Takei smiled big and flashed me a Vulcan salute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I happened to be in the right place at the right time with a positive attitude, and with a wee bit o&#8217; luck captured a magic moment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thank you, George!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my family and I drove into Phoenix for our second day of the Phoenix Comicon. While walking in front of the convention center, a bunch of suits piled out of a huge black limousine. Oos and ahs and \u201cwho &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/29\/positive-attitude\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writinghelp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}