{"id":9262,"date":"2015-02-27T13:43:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=9262"},"modified":"2015-02-27T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T18:46:11","slug":"leonard-nimoy-1931-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=9262","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spocks-Farewell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spocks-Farewell.jpg\" alt=\"Spock's Farewell\" width=\"447\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spocks-Farewell.jpg 513w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spocks-Farewell-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leonard Nimoy was much more than Spock, though that alone left an enormous cultural footprint beyond just SFF.<\/p>\n<p>By now, the figure of Spock is solidly embedded in contemporary mythology. Because of the multi-leveled conflicts and dilemmas intersecting on Spock and my own interests and experiences, the character, his backstory and his culture have been an integral part of my mental map. They served as a mirror that allowed playful, hopeful imaginative extrapolations in a universe that recognized individual and collective good.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell, astrogator, supporter of tikkun olam and shekhinah. The light in our courtyard has grown dimmer by your departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Nimoy was much more than Spock, though that alone left an enormous cultural footprint beyond just SFF. By now, the figure of Spock is solidly embedded in contemporary mythology. Because of the multi-leveled conflicts and dilemmas intersecting on Spock and my own interests and experiences, the character, his backstory and his culture have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}