{"id":13625,"date":"2015-02-28T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13625"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:01:44","slug":"how-the-internet-is-remembering-the-legendary-leonard-nimoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/how-the-internet-is-remembering-the-legendary-leonard-nimoy","title":{"rendered":"How the Internet Is Remembering the Legendary Leonard Nimoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/graeme_mcmillan\/\" rel=\"author\">Graeme McMillan<\/a> \u2014 Wired<br \/>\n<br \/> Leonard Nimoy, the legendary actor known to the world as <em>Star Trek<\/em>\u2018s Mr. Spock, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/27\/arts\/television\/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html\" target=\"_blank\">died<\/a> at his home in Los Angeles this morning. He was 83. Almost as soon as word of his passing hit the Internet, friends, former co-stars, and fans began expressing grief over the actor\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n<p>Nimoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/leonard-nimoy-hospitalized-hollywood-reacts-777635\">was hospitalized earlier this week<\/a> for chest pains, and his wife Susan Bay Nimoy has confirmed that he died from end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He announced his sickness in February of last year, blaming it on his smoking habits of decades earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you all know, my Grandpa passed away this morning at 8:40 from end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,\u201d Nimoy\u2019s granddaughter, Dani, posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitlonger.com\/show\/n_1skuhq6\" target=\"_blank\">via the actor\u2019s Twitter<\/a>. \u201cHe was an extraordinary man, husband, grandfather, brother, actor, author-the list goes on- and friend. Thank you for the warm condolences. May you all LLAP.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/02\/leonard-nimoy-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Graeme McMillan \u2014 Wired Leonard Nimoy, the legendary actor known to the world as Star Trek\u2018s Mr. Spock, died at his home in Los Angeles this morning. He was 83. Almost as soon as word of his passing hit the Internet, friends, former co-stars, and fans began expressing grief over the actor\u2019s passing. Nimoy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1588],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-first-contact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64817,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13625\/revisions\/64817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}