{"id":2779,"date":"2016-04-17T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/for-the-love-of-spock-is-a-moving-love-letter-to-an-icon-and-a-father\/"},"modified":"2016-04-17T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:47:04","slug":"for-the-love-of-spock-is-a-moving-love-letter-to-an-icon-and-a-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/for-the-love-of-spock-is-a-moving-love-letter-to-an-icon-and-a-father\/","title":{"rendered":"'For the Love of Spock' is a moving love letter to an icon and a father"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spock, an iconic presence on the original Star Trek<\/i> series and its multiple incarnations over the next 50 years, might have been another all-but-forgotten TV character, like Alf or Doby Gillis \u2014 if not for Leonard Nimoy.<\/p>\n

As written, Spock was supposed to be logical, emotionless. But Nimoy imbued the alien with a striking humanity telegraphed through tiny gestures \u2014 an eyebrow raise, a furrowed brow.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Leonard Nimoy’s final art work will lead ‘Star Trek’ art exhibit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Spock was Star Trek<\/i>‘s only\u00a0full-time, half-breed character. On the surface, he was a Vulcan; underneath, he was constantly struggling to keep his human half and its emotions in check. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Spock, an iconic presence on the original Star Trek series and its multiple incarnations over the next 50 years, might have been another all-but-forgotten TV character, like Alf or Doby Gillis \u2014 if not for Leonard Nimoy. As written, Spock … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,1999,1075,765,2000],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-leonard-nimoy","tag-mashable-choice","tag-movies","tag-star-trek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}