{"id":4170,"date":"2008-02-14T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/14\/mlk-talked-nichelle-nichols-out-of-quitting-star-trek\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T23:41:27","slug":"mlk-talked-nichelle-nichols-out-of-quitting-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4170","title":{"rendered":"MLK Talked Nichelle Nichols Out Of Quitting &quot;Star Trek&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"373\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_igTZlsTPvU&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_igTZlsTPvU&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"373\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I had to post this &#8212; it so nicely overlaps my political interests with my geekish side. Plus, I think Nichelle Nichols totally rocks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also an interesting reminder of how a character who is, looked at today, a glaring token (only woman cast member, only Black cast member, in a very subservient role) was nevertheless important and groundbreaking at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Curtsy to <a href=\"http:\/\/juliansanchez.com\/notes\/archives\/2008\/02\/bizarro_fact_of_the_day.php\">Julian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to post this &#8212; it so nicely overlaps my political interests with my geekish side. Plus, I think Nichelle Nichols totally rocks. It&#8217;s also an interesting reminder of how a character who is, looked at today, a glaring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,62,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}