{"id":23995,"date":"2022-07-31T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=23995"},"modified":"2022-07-31T17:02:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T21:02:05","slug":"nichelle-nichols-groundbreaking-star-trek-star-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/07\/31\/nichelle-nichols-groundbreaking-star-trek-star-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nichelle Nichols, groundbreaking &#8216;Star Trek star, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Nichelle-Nichols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23996\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trailblazing actress Nichelle Nichols has died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her son announced news of her death on Instagram, saying she died from natural causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nichols played Uhura in &#8220;Star Trek: The Original Series.&#8221; At the time, she was one of the first African American women to play a major role in a television series.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"465\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3_Nichelle-Nichols.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3_Nichelle-Nichols.jpg 310w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3_Nichelle-Nichols-200x300.jpg 200w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Hers was a life well lived and as such a model for us all,&#8221; her son said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nichols&#8217; acting career spanned decades. She is listed in credits from the 1960s to 2021, and some films are still in pre-production, IMBD reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nichols was 89 years old. Services will be for family members and close friends, her son said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trailblazing actress Nichelle Nichols has died. Her son announced news of her death on Instagram, saying she died from natural causes. Nichols played Uhura in &#8220;Star Trek: The Original Series.&#8221;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[3178,3179],"class_list":["post-23995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-groundbreaking-star-trek-star","tag-nichelle-nichols"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}