{"id":1103,"date":"2011-06-02T17:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T00:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2012-08-31T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T20:15:20","slug":"leonard-nimoy-inspires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/02\/leonard-nimoy-inspires\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy Inspires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the Phoenix Comicon 2011 I was fortunate enough to get to sit in with Leonard Nimoy. I was unsure what he was going to talk about but it really didn&#8217;t matter. Just a little while earlier I had the opportunity to get a photograph with him, and he was an absolute gentleman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crowd went wild when he took the stage. I thought he might sit down behind the table but, no, he stood the entire time, worked his slideshow from his laptop, and provided an hour of entertainment and insight I will not forget. He reminded me that my choice towards humility and generosity is sound and inspires me to recognize the good in people and overlook their flaws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My only regret is that I did not have a tripod for the video clips.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EWYXMaSi-Ys?version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EWYXMaSi-Ys?version=3\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Phoenix Comicon 2011 I was fortunate enough to get to sit in with Leonard Nimoy. I was unsure what he was going to talk about but it really didn&#8217;t matter. Just a little while earlier I had the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/02\/leonard-nimoy-inspires\/\">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-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writinghelp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","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=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}