{"id":42418,"date":"2015-12-28T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=42418"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:11:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T18:11:34","slug":"johnson-passes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/12\/johnson-passes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction Author\/Screenwriter <strong>George Clayton Johnson<\/strong> has died at the age of eighty-six of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was the author of the first Trek episode to air on television, <em>The Man Trap.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Best known for his story <em>Logan&#8217;s Run<\/em>, written with <strong>William F. Nolan<\/strong>, Johnson wrote several <em>Twilight Zone<\/em> episodes, including <em>Nothing in the Dark, Kick the Can, A Game of Pool, Ninety Years Without Slumbering, Execution, The Four of Us Are Dying<\/em>, and <em>A Penny for Your Thoughts<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be remembered as a person who early on in his life took control of his life and set goals,&#8221; said Johnson in a 2003 interview. &#8220;When people gave me a lined paper, I wrote the other way. When people expect some certain behavior from me, I will frustrate their expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is survived by a wife, daughter son, and a half-sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction Author\/Screenwriter George Clayton Johnson has died at the age of eighty-six of cancer&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2506,8720],"class_list":["post-42418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-johnson","tag-the-man-trap"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Johnson122315-1.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42418","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=42418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42420,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42418\/revisions\/42420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}