{"id":4295,"date":"2011-01-26T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:35:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:35:33","slug":"leonard-nimoy-came-up-with-the-vulcan-nerve-pinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/leonard-nimoy-came-up-with-the-vulcan-nerve-pinch\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy Came Up With the Vulcan Nerve Pinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vulcan-nerve-pinch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4296\" title=\"vulcan-nerve-pinch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vulcan-nerve-pinch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vulcan-nerve-pinch.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/vulcan-nerve-pinch-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Leonard Nemoy Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/the-iconic-live-long-and-prosper-hand-gesture-was-originally-a-jewish-sign\/\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Nimoy and Star Trek Related Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leonard Nimoy was the one to come up with the Vulcan nerve pinch.\u00a0 In the first episode this pinch showed up, Spock was originally supposed to club evil Kirk over the head, knocking him out.\u00a0 Nimoy thought this was inconsistent with Spock\u2019s personality.\u00a0 He felt a non-violent nerve pinch would be more fitting with Vulcan\u2019s being able to emit energy from their fingertips; this energy when applied to the correct nerves of a human would then render the human unconscious.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Nimoy and Star Trek Related Facts Text Version Leonard Nimoy was the one to come up with the Vulcan nerve pinch.\u00a0 In the first episode this pinch showed up, Spock was originally supposed to club evil Kirk over the head, knocking him out.\u00a0 Nimoy thought this was inconsistent with Spock\u2019s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[822,1040,823,1201],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-entertainment-facts","tag-movie-facts","tag-star-trek-facts","tag-vulcan-nerve-pinch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}