{"id":861,"date":"2006-06-07T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/06\/07\/rocket-man\/"},"modified":"2006-06-07T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T21:00:37","slug":"rocket-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/rocket-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it&#8217;s William Shatner.  At <strike>a science fiction conference<\/strike> an awards show.  From the Seventies.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MVbv6r_tKnE&amp;search=Shatner%20Rocket%20Man\">&#8220;Singing&#8221; an Elton John\/Bernie Taupin hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MVbv6r_tKnE&amp;search=Shatner%20Rocket%20Man\"><img class='center' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/shatner.jpg' alt='Shatner' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But still.  It can&#8217;t be for real, right?  Like, irony?  Please tell me it&#8217;s a joke.  Seriously.  (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=simmons\/060602\">The Sports Guy<\/a>, ultimately via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2006\/06\/why_i_love_the_sports_guy.php\">Ed Brayton<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, it&#8217;s William Shatner. At a science fiction conference an awards show. From the Seventies. &#8220;Singing&#8221; an Elton John\/Bernie Taupin hit. But still. It can&#8217;t be for real, right? Like, irony? Please tell me it&#8217;s a joke. Seriously. (Via The Sports Guy, ultimately via Ed Brayton.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}