{"id":199772,"date":"2007-06-27T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/27\/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T02:26:00","slug":"youve-got-to-be-kidding-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/27\/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve GOT to Be Kidding Me!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 Months late on this breaking story, but at least he&#8217;s not singing <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?category=0&amp;id=34227\">Shatner Sells Kidney Stone<\/a><\/span><br \/>Star Trek star William Shatner sold a kidney stone to an online casino for $25,000 to benefit charity, the Reuters news service reported.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner, who played Capt. James T. Kirk, sold the stone to GoldenPalace.com, and proceeds of the sale will go to Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Shatner told Reuters that it wasn&#8217;t easy parting with a kidney stone, even if it had already left his body. He also said he would never sell unless he had visitation rights. &#8220;When I was contacted about selling my kidney stone to GoldenPalace.com for an original price of $15,000, I turned it down, knowing that my tunics from Star Trek have commanded more than $100,000,&#8221; Shatner said, adding that he countered by offering to sell the ring-sized stone for $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Months late on this breaking story, but at least he&#8217;s not singing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Shatner Sells Kidney StoneStar Trek star William Shatner sold a kidney stone to an online casino for $25,000 to benefit charity, the Reuters news service reported. Shatner, who played Capt. James T. Kirk, sold the stone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,1074,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-medical","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199772"}],"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=199772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}