{"id":198861,"date":"2007-10-03T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/george-takei-is-a-heavenly-body\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T22:05:00","slug":"george-takei-is-a-heavenly-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/03\/george-takei-is-a-heavenly-body\/","title":{"rendered":"George Takei is a Heavenly Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though personally, my taste runs to asteroid 68410 (Nichols)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/space\/10\/03\/takei.asteroid.ap\/index.html\">Asteroid renamed for &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; actor<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; A piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in honor of the actor, best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu in the original &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; series and movies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;I am now a heavenly body,&#8221; Takei, 70, said Tuesday, laughing. &#8220;I found out about it yesterday. &#8230; I was blown away. It came out of the clear, blue sky &#8212; just like an asteroid.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though personally, my taste runs to asteroid 68410 (Nichols) Asteroid renamed for &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; actorNEW YORK (AP) &#8212; A piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt. An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,1171,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}