{"id":97269,"date":"2015-02-27T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=97269"},"modified":"2015-02-27T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:02:43","slug":"leonard-nimoy-dies-aged-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2015\/02\/27\/97269-leonard-nimoy-dies-aged-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy dies aged 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/leonard-nimoy-300x400-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"leonard-nimoy-300x400\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-97272 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/leonard-nimoy-300x400-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/leonard-nimoy-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> Leonard Nimoy has died, aged 83. The actor had been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for some time.<\/p>\n<p>He was a poet, a photographer, a singer, an artist, and, of course, an actor. For Tolkien fandom he&#8217;ll be recalled for the delightfully kitsch <i>Ballad of Bildo Baggins<\/i> but his key legacy to pop culture and the world will forever be his role as Mr Spock on Star Trek.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p>A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.  LLAP<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealNimoy\/status\/569762773204217857\">February 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>There are scores of obituaries already on the internet, many of them far more eloquent than anything I could hope to write. However, I particularly enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/tv-and-radio\/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-aged-83-20150228-13rbjo.html\" target=\"_blank\">the tribute in The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> from writer Michael Idato.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nimoy&#8217;s Spock starred in Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, a series of Star Trek feature films in the 1980s, a guest appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation and, finally, a role in the recent J.J. Abrams reboot of the Star Trek franchise.<\/p>\n<p>In that rare and intangible way, actor and character became one. Even when Nimoy threatened not to return to the role, and Star Trek&#8217;s creator Gene Roddenberry hatched plans to replace him with another Vulcan, Nimoy ultimately relented.<\/p>\n<p>On some deeper level, he understood better than anyone, that his destiny, and his connection to that role, was inescapable.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AGF5ROpjRAU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spock-Leonard-Nimoy.jpg\" alt=\"Spock-Leonard-Nimoy\" width=\"620\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97271 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spock-Leonard-Nimoy.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spock-Leonard-Nimoy-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Spock-Leonard-Nimoy-600x406.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Nimoy has died, aged 83. The actor had been suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":97272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[499,22,7,148],"tags":[906,1318],"class_list":["post-97269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-headlines","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit","tag-bilbo-baggins","tag-leonard-nimoy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/leonard-nimoy-300x400.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-piR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97275,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97269\/revisions\/97275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}