{"id":6707,"date":"2009-03-22T07:57:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T14:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:55:33","slug":"international-talk-like-william-shatner-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/03\/22\/international-talk-like-william-shatner-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Talk Like William Shatner Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_fJOaqsBXAc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_fJOaqsBXAc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In honor of William Shatner&#8217;s 78th birthday <del>tomorrow<\/del> <ins>today<\/ins>, 3\/22\/09, I am declaring March 22nd to be &#8220;International Talk Like William Shatner Day!&#8221; Hey, we have &#8220;International Talk Like a Pirate Day&#8221;, and Shatner inspired a helluva lot more kids to be like Captain James T. Kirk than any who wanted to be some smelly, toothless, &#8220;arrr&#8221;-spouting frickin&#8217; pirate.<\/p>\n<p>  Now, since talking like our hero is a bit more challenging than walking around going, &#8220;Arrr&#8221;, I&#8217;ve included the following video tutorial for your edification, filmed by producer Bill Biggar, on a loooong drive to the airport on L.A.&#8217;s fabulous 405 freeway. Enjoy, and remember, it&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;sabotaaj&#8221;, not, &#8220;sabotahj&#8221;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of William Shatner&#8217;s 78th birthday today, 3\/22\/09, I am declaring March 22nd to be &#8216;International Talk Like William Shatner Day!&#8217; Now, since talking like our hero is a bit more challenging than walking around going, &#8216;Arrr&#8217;, I&#8217;ve included the following video tutorial for your edification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[6,4097,8,1588],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-humor","tag-star-trek","tag-television","tag-tos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}