{"id":1007,"date":"2015-05-22T04:29:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2015-05-22T04:29:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:29:54","slug":"full-shatner-on-shatner-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/full-shatner-on-shatner-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Shatner on Shatner Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/516uDz7F9iL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1008\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/full-shatner-on-shatner-action\/516udz7f9il\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/516uDz7F9iL.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"324,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"516uDz7F9iL\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/516uDz7F9iL.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1008 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/516uDz7F9iL-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"516uDz7F9iL\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/516uDz7F9iL-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/516uDz7F9iL.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a> <strong><em>I wrote this review of Shatnerquake by Jeff Burk in 2009 and I stand by it. Perhaps even more so now than ever before.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Burk&#8217;s <em>Shatnerquake<\/em> is the finest story ever told containing multiple William Shatners. Lesser authors have been shackled before now with writing only one role for Shatner. This is understandable, in the field of television and film, for logistical reasons. However, this has never been the case in the literary realm and Burk has led the way here with both great panache and bloodletting.<\/p>\n<p>Unsatisfied with a single Shatner, Burk here provides a wall of Shatners. A smorgasbord of Shatners. Indeed, every possible variation of Shatner is set upon onlookers, each other, and the reader. No one is safe, let alone Shatner.<\/p>\n<p>While some people have, in the past, mocked Shatner, deriding his skill as a thespian, song stylist, or margarine spokesman, Burk has shown that the problem has never been one of too much Shatner, rather too little. Free of casting limitations the literary form allows for full Shatner on Shatner action. At last Shatner is presented on a level playing field, where characters are of the same caliber.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Shatnerquake<\/em>, Burk has solved the Shatner dilema, which has plagued man since 1951, and he shall be remembered forever for this.<\/p>\n<p>Denny Crane!<\/p>\n<p>[amazon asin=B002AJ8812&amp;template=iframe image]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this review of Shatnerquake by Jeff Burk in 2009 and I stand by it. Perhaps even more so now than ever before. Jeff Burk&#8217;s Shatnerquake is the finest story ever told containing multiple William Shatners. Lesser authors have been shackled before now with writing only one role for Shatner. This is understandable, in the field of television and film, for logistical reasons. However, this has never been the case in the literary realm and Burk has led the way here with both great panache and bloodletting. Unsatisfied with a single Shatner, Burk here provides a wall of Shatners.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,14,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-info","category-links","category-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u13S-gf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":157,"url":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/shatnerquake-shatner-on-shatner-action\/","url_meta":{"origin":1007,"position":0},"title":"Shatnerquake, Shatner on Shatner Action","author":"David Raffin","date":"June 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeff Burk's Shatnerquake is the finest story ever told containing multiple William Shatners. 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