{"id":1995,"date":"2015-02-27T23:02:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2015-02-27T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:02:53","slug":"leonard-nimoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/2015\/02\/27\/leonard-nimoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015): Live Long and Prosper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1998 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2015\/02\/ALA0002300-1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Leonard Nimoy, 1976\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2015\/02\/ALA0002300-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2015\/02\/ALA0002300-1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2015\/02\/ALA0002300-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The ALA Archives staff found a picture of Leonard Nimoy (<span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\">March 26, 1931<\/span> &#8211; February 27, 2015) in our <a title=\"AL Biographical File\" href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/alaarchon\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=8517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Record Series 13\/5\/15<\/a>.\u00a0 ALA conferences have a long tradition of distinguished guests and author signings, and Nimoy was at the 1976 ALA Annual Conference, signing pictures for his newly released memoir <em>I am Not Spock.<\/em> Apparently he got tired of smiling for the camera.<\/p>\n<p>This picture, and a write up of the event, was featured in <em>American Libraries <\/em>Vol. 7, No. 7 (Jul. &#8211; Aug., 1976), p. 473. <em>Copyright of this image is currently unknown and is provided in low resolution.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ALA Archives staff found a picture of Leonard Nimoy (March 26, 1931 &#8211; February 27, 2015) in our Record Series 13\/5\/15.\u00a0 ALA conferences have a long tradition of distinguished guests and author signings, and Nimoy was at the 1976 ALA Annual Conference, signing pictures for his newly released memoir I am Not Spock. Apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":1998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,59,115,127],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-found-in-the-archives","tag-ala-annual-conference","tag-book-signing","tag-i-am-not-spock","tag-leonard-nimoy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}