{"id":679,"date":"2007-10-12T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T18:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2007-10-12T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T18:18:13","slug":"englands-most-famous-star-wars-fan-to-be-in-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"England&#039;s most famous Star Wars fan to be in Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the word on the street (and by street, I mean, Internet) is that Simon Pegg has been tapped to star in the new Star Trek movie. I didn&#8217;t give a crap about this movie <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/film\/article2645482.ece\">until this very moment<\/a>. The question is, who will he be playing? We have Spock, we have villain. As rah rah as I am for his career, he&#8217;s no Kirk &#8211; plus, they&#8217;d be yelling it all over the place if he were. &#8220;We&#8217;ve found our Kirk! We&#8217;ve found our Kirk!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scotty? Accent. Light comedic relief, but some gumption when it&#8217;s time to act all mean, &#8216;n shit.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my bet. Any takers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the word on the street (and by street, I mean, Internet) is that Simon Pegg has been tapped to star in the new Star Trek movie. I didn&#8217;t give a crap about this movie until this very moment. The question is, who will he be playing? We have Spock, we have villain. As rah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}