{"id":54243,"date":"2022-07-31T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=54243"},"modified":"2022-07-31T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:53:59","slug":"nichelle-nichols-groundbreaking-star-trek-star-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/07\/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\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Nichelle-Nichols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54244\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trailblazing actress Nichelle Nichols has died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her son announced news of her death on Instagram, saying she died from natural causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3_Nichelle-Nichols.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3_Nichelle-Nichols.jpg 310w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/3_Nichelle-Nichols-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#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>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>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":8,"featured_media":54245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[1496,1495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54246,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54243\/revisions\/54246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}