{"id":50,"date":"2004-05-25T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2004-05-25T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T15:02:20","slug":"b5_loses_its_doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2004\/05\/25\/b5_loses_its_doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"B5 Loses Its Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I hate how these things always seem to happen in cycles &#8212; you go for a while without hearing about anyone dying, then all of a sudden one day, familiar faces from our extended TV-and-movie family are dropping all around us. Today I read that actor Richard Biggs, who played Dr. Franklin on the TV series <i>Babylon 5<\/i>, died suddenly over the weekend. If you&#8217;re a fan of that show or of Mr. Biggs, you can read more about his passing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/05\/25\/obit.biggs\/index.html\">here<\/a>. I have to admit that I was only an occasional viewer of <i>B5<\/i>; I just never seemed to find the time for that one. But from what I saw of him, Franklin was a good character, a flawed man with an essential core of decency, and Biggs did a consummate job of bringing him to life. He was only 44 years old, just ten years older than myself. A damn shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I hate how these things always seem to happen in cycles &#8212; you go for a while without hearing about anyone dying, then all of a sudden one day, familiar faces from our extended TV-and-movie family are dropping all around us. Today I read that actor Richard Biggs, who played Dr. Franklin on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}