{"id":284364,"date":"2018-11-13T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T06:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=284364"},"modified":"2018-11-13T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T06:44:17","slug":"stan-lee-passes-away-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/284364-stan-lee-passes-away-at-95.html","title":{"rendered":"Stan Lee passes away at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marvel.com\/remembering_stan_lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced today<\/strong><\/a> that legendary writer Stan Lee has died at the age of 95.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/11\/12\/stan-lee-dead-dies-marvel-comics\/?vtest=100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TMZ<\/strong><\/a>, Lee was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center early on Monday morning, where he passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Lee began working in the comics industry in 1939, but made a name for himself in 1960 when he worked on iconic titles including the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Daredevil, Thor, and Spider-Man.<\/p>\n<p>While he stopped writing comics in 1972, Lee continued to serve in a publisher role at Marvel.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, he made numerous cameo appearances in Marvel movies released over the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created,&#8221; said Disney CEO Bob Iger.\u00a0 &#8220;A superhero in his own right to Marvel fans around the world, Stan had the power to inspire, to entertain, and to connect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/283964-disneys-streaming-service-is-coming-and-it-will-take-content-from-netflix.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Disney\u2019s streaming service is coming \u2013 and it will take content from Netflix<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel announced today that legendary writer Stan Lee has died at the age of 95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":284368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[12857,18903,55440,53707,55438],"class_list":["post-284364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-disney","tag-marvel","tag-publisher","tag-spider-man","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284402,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284364\/revisions\/284402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}