In recent years, social media has played a significant role in how people think about celebrity death.<\/strong>\u00a0Before Facebook, most B- and C-list actors’ passings went largely unnoticed\u2014at least in the bigger pop culture arena. Of course, Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock on the original\u00a0Star Trek<\/em>\u00a0series, was top-shelf material. Still, while Nimoy’s February 27 death was big on Facebook and Twitter, hardcore Trekkies visited Trek Core. The website is a must-visit for all things\u00a0Star Trek<\/em>-related. Currently, there’s a special section devoted to rare and unseen photos of Nimoy\u2014with and without his trademark pointed ears.\u00a0www.trekcore.com<\/a><\/em>. Trek Core In recent years, social media has played a significant role in how people think about celebrity death.\u00a0Before Facebook, most B- and C-list actors’ passings went largely unnoticed\u2014at least in the bigger pop culture arena. Of course, Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock on the original\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0series, was top-shelf material. Still, while Nimoy’s February 27 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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