{"id":22364,"date":"2013-01-07T12:46:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T20:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=22364"},"modified":"2013-01-07T12:46:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T20:46:32","slug":"trek-fan-loses-battle-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/01\/trek-fan-loses-battle-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek Fan Loses Battle With Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22367\" title=\"StarTrekID010713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/StarTrekID010713.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <em>Star Trek<\/em> fan with terminal cancer who had been granted his wish to see <em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em> has passed away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Craft<\/strong>&#8216;s wish to see the movie had been posted by his friend on <em>Reddit<\/em>, and the wish eventually made its way to <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong>, who made a rough cut of the movie available for Dan and his wife Paige to see.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;Of course, he loved the film,&#8221; said <em>Grady Hendrix<\/em>, a friend of the couple. &#8220;It was the last thing he got to do before he passed away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hendrix thanked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/startrek\/comments\/160avc\/thank_you_rstartrek\/\">Reddit community<\/a> for their assistance in getting the word out and making his friend&#8217;s last wish come true. &#8220;At a time when he didn&#8217;t have a whole lot to look forward to, <em>r\/StarTrek<\/em>, <strong>J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof<\/strong>, and <em>Bad Robot<\/em> performed a simple act of kindness for a total stranger and gave Dan something to be excited about for a couple of days,&#8221; said Hendrix. &#8220;The movie did exactly what movies are supposed to do; it helped him forget about his problems for a couple of hours. It doesn&#8217;t sound like much, but in this case it was&#8230;it made a huge difference to Dan, his wife, and his friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked about what he had done for Craft, Abrams said, &#8220;It was an honor to be asked. I&#8217;d rather not talk about it because it feels insensitive, but for that to have been a request was unbelievably touching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zachary Quinto<\/strong> sent his condolences to Craft&#8217;s family via <em>Twitter<\/em>. &#8220;My heart is with the family of Dan Craft,&#8221; he said. &#8220;May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Craft is survived by his wife Paige and a daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Star Trek fan with terminal cancer who had been granted his wish to see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[2407,5201,2475],"class_list":["post-22364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-abrams","tag-craft","tag-quinto"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22370,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22364\/revisions\/22370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}