{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"This Human —","title":"Leonard Nimoy","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":899,"description":"The son of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Leonard Nimoy grew up in a Boston tenement where Yiddish filled the kitchen and English climbed the stairs. He left for Hollywood at eighteen with two hundred dollars and spent seventeen years in obscurity before a pointed pair of latex ears changed everything. But the story of Nimoy and Spock is not the one you think — it's stranger, more human, and it begins in a synagogue.\n\nThis episode traces the line from a boy in Boston's West End who saw something sacred he was told not to look at, to a man who smuggled that gesture onto a soundstage and watched it become the most recognizable hand sign in science fiction. Along the way: the alcoholism no one knew about, the marriage that couldn't survive the character bleed, the photographs of bodies that defied Hollywood's gaze, and the quiet love that arrived twenty-five years late and made him want to stay in the room.\n\nLeonard Nimoy spent forty years trying to answer one question: where does Spock end and I begin? The answer surprised even him.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hKPkwkoqBRTrPZ7Ozr2MDv9rSOgAoCY19Bar-mYUsLE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yMGI1/ZmVlNTA4MWIwMDM3/NjJiODkyNjZmMjVl/MTNlMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}