{"id":47970,"date":"2018-03-14T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=47970"},"modified":"2018-04-13T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T20:37:11","slug":"hawking-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/03\/hawking-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawking Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stephen Hawking<\/strong>, a world-renowned brilliant physicist best-known for his work on relativity and black holes, has died at the age of seventy-six.<\/p>\n<p>Trek fans also know Hawkings for his appearance on <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation: Descent, Part I<\/em>, where Hawkings played poker with Data, <strong>Isaac Newton<\/strong>, and <strong>Albert Einstein.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born in 1942, Hawking was diagnosed with a rare form of a motor neurone disease similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in his early twenties. He was only given a few years to live at that time. His illness made him wheelchair-bound, and Hawkings was eventually obliged to speak through a voice synthesizer after a bout with pneumonia in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of this, Hawkings went on to have a stellar career as a researcher and author. His <em>A Brief History of Time<\/em> was a bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>Hawkings made appearances on various television shows (or voiced his character) including <em>The Simpsons, Futurama, The Big Bang Theory<\/em>, and <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Married twice, Hawkings had three children by his first wife. His children, in a statement, said &#8220;We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hawking, a world-renowned brilliant physicist best-known for his work on relativity and black holes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4351],"tags":[9487],"class_list":["post-47970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-star-trek","tag-hawking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/HawkingPasses031418.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\/general-star-trek\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General Star Trek<\/a>","tag_info":"General Star Trek","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970","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=47970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47972,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47970\/revisions\/47972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}