{"id":47485,"date":"2017-12-28T09:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=47485"},"modified":"2017-12-28T09:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:34:40","slug":"blessing-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/12\/blessing-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jack Blessing<\/strong>, best-known to<em> Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> fans as Temporal Investigations agent Dulmar, is dead at the age of sixty-six.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Baltimore in 1951, Blessing appeared on many television shows as well as in movies from the early 1980s on. In addition to his <em>Trials and Tribble-ations<\/em> guest star role, he could be seen in <em>Moonlighting<\/em> as MacGillicudy, and on <em>Quincy M.E., M*A*S*H, Family Ties, China Beach, Empty Nest, The Golden Girls, Cybil, The Naked Truth, Everyone Love Raymond, NYPD Blue, The X-Files<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n<p>Blessing&#8217;s son posted the news on <em>Facebook<\/em>. &#8220;I love you, Dad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The last year-and-a-half was a gift to us, as was your entire life. We&#8217;re the luckiest family in the world. Best of luck in the astral plane. I know you&#8217;re going to crush it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actor died last month of pancreatic cancer. Blessing is survived by his wife Lora, and sons Ian and Christopher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Blessing, best-known to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans as Temporal Investigations agent Dulmar,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[9436,3511],"class_list":["post-47485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-blessing","tag-trials-and-tribble-ations"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Blessing122817.jpg",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":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47485","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=47485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47487,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47485\/revisions\/47487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}