{"id":58531,"date":"2015-08-18T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=58531"},"modified":"2015-08-06T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T17:27:24","slug":"another-reason-to-love-wil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/18\/another-reason-to-love-wil\/","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to love Wil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a sci-fi nerd like I am, you&#8217;ll immediately recognize the name <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wil Wheaton<\/a>. Wil played <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wesley_Crusher\" target=\"_blank\">Wesley Crusher<\/a>\u00a0in <em>&#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8221;<\/em>. In recent years Wil has become something of a champion for nerd culture, even earning himself several cameo roles in the geeky sit-com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/big_bang_theory\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Bang Theory<\/a>. I&#8217;m obviously a huge\u00a0fan \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I found out something about Wil that I had never known &#8211; he suffers from depression. Here&#8217;s a video I came across recently where he describes his experience:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K6ACzT6PCDw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a sci-fi nerd like I am, you&#8217;ll immediately recognize the name Wil Wheaton. Wil played Wesley Crusher\u00a0in &#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8221;. In recent years Wil has become something of a champion for nerd culture, even earning himself several cameo roles in the geeky sit-com The Big Bang Theory. I&#8217;m obviously a huge\u00a0fan \ud83d\ude42 A few weeks ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2152,1960,3224],"class_list":["post-58531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-anxiety","tag-depression","tag-wil-wheaton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58537,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58531\/revisions\/58537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}