{"id":147762,"date":"2022-10-08T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/william-shatner-reveals-mixed-emotions-from-record-breaking-space-trip"},"modified":"2022-10-08T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T10:23:08","slug":"william-shatner-reveals-mixed-emotions-from-record-breaking-space-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/william-shatner-reveals-mixed-emotions-from-record-breaking-space-trip","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner Reveals Mixed Emotions from Record Breaking Space Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uEhdlIor-do?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Comparing his experience to <a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jodie-foster\">Jodie Foster<\/a>\u2019s character in the movie <em>Contact<\/em>, Shatner added, \u201cI discovered that the beauty isn\u2019t out there, it\u2019s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the excerpt, Shatner wrote that he later learned he \u201cwas not alone in this feeling,\u201d which is <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/inspiration4-reveal-they-felt-the-overview-effect-in-space-what-to-know-about-the-phenomenon\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called the \u201cOverview Effect\u201d<\/a> and is \u201cnot uncommon among astronauts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.specialoffers.meredith.com\/ats\/show.aspx?cr=588&fm=241\"><strong><em>PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparing his experience to Jodie Foster\u2019s character in the movie Contact, Shatner added, \u201cI discovered that the beauty isn\u2019t out there, it\u2019s down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound.\u201d In the excerpt, Shatner wrote that he later learned he \u201cwas not alone in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}