{"id":16395,"date":"2011-08-17T10:16:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T09:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=16395"},"modified":"2011-08-17T10:16:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T09:16:50","slug":"leonard-nimoy-retiring-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/leonard-nimoy-retiring-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy retiring for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-16401\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/leonard-nimoy-retiring-for-good\/attachment\/leonard-nimoy-bell-fringe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16401\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"leonard-nimoy-bell-fringe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/leonard-nimoy-bell-fringe-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>Former Mr Spock, Leonard Nimoy, whose most recent sci-fi outings were a cameo in JJ Abrams&#8217; 2009\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em> reboot, and the role of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/nimoys-fringe-return-is-unusual\/\">William Bell in <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/nimoys-fringe-return-is-unusual\/\">Fringe<\/a><\/em>, has decided to call it a day at the grand old age of 80, and retire from acting and convention appearances, with his last three being the forthcoming two official <em>Star Trek<\/em> cons in Las Vegas and Chicago, and Dragon*Con in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>What this means for the increasingly delayed <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/star-trek-ii-filming-pushed-back-and-replaced-by-gi-joe\/\">Star Trek 2<\/a><\/em> is that there&#8217;s only going to be one Spock, Zachary Quinto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Trek veteran is backing out of Star Trek 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":16401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[109,419,465,96,1709],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/leonard-nimoy-bell-fringe.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}