{"id":28834,"date":"2015-02-27T14:40:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=28834"},"modified":"2015-02-27T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:40:16","slug":"leonard-nimoy-lived-long-and-prospered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/02\/leonard-nimoy-lived-long-and-prospered.html","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy Lived Long and Prospered"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobcornwall.com\/2015\/02\/live-long-and-prosper-leonard-nimoy-d-2.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Leonard Nimoy<\/a> has passed away, at age 83. <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/rip-leonard-nimoy-who-showed-us-what-it-truly-means-to-1688470007?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&amp;utm_source=io9_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tributes<\/a> are\u00a0appearing far and wide. The character of Spock on Star Trek is obviously his most famous role, and the commitment to logic without emotion, and yet the forging of friendship and self-sacrifice, coupled with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/templeofthefuture\/2015\/02\/we-are-spock\/#ixzz3SyZhzo3q\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">ideology<\/a> of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations, offered a worldview that, although fictional and alien, inspired many human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video\u00a0in which Nimoy talks about the Jewish roots of the famous Vulcan salute.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Live Long and Prosper: The Jewish Story Behind Spock, Leonard Nimoy&#039;s Star Trek Character\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DyiWkWcR86I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28838\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/02\/Nimoy.jpg\" alt=\"Nimoy\" width=\"636\" height=\"325\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Nimoy has passed away, at age 83. Tributes are\u00a0appearing far and wide. The character of Spock on Star Trek is obviously his most famous role, and the commitment to logic without emotion, and yet the forging of friendship and self-sacrifice, coupled with the ideology of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations, offered a worldview that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":28838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[6483,10426,11724,11819],"class_list":["post-28834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-star-trek-science-fiction","tag-leonard-nimoy","tag-rip","tag-spock","tag-star-trek"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leonard Nimoy Lived Long and Prospered<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leonard Nimoy has passed away, at age 83. 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