{"id":9440,"date":"2018-11-27T21:19:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T04:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9440"},"modified":"2018-12-16T21:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T04:23:38","slug":"stephen-hillenburg-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/27\/stephen-hillenburg-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hillenburg Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/11\/spongebob-squarepants-creator-stephen-hillenburg-dead-at-57-1202509590\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from DEADLINE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title entry-title desktop\">\u2018SpongeBob SquarePants\u2019 Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dead At\u00a057<\/h1>\n<p>by <a class=\"name\" title=\"Posts by Geoff Boucher\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/geoffboucherdeadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Geoff Boucher<\/a> and <a class=\"name\" title=\"Posts by Greg Evans\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/greg-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Greg Evans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0BA4V-ZEpE\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"auto-tag_stephen-hillenburg\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/stephen-hillenburg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tag=\"stephen-hillenburg\">Stephen Hillenburg<\/a>, the creator of <a id=\"auto-tag_nickelodeon\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nickelodeon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tag=\"nickelodeon\">Nickelodeon<\/a>\u2019s signature cartoon series\u00a0<em><a id=\"auto-tag_spongebob-squarepants\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/spongebob-squarepants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tag=\"spongebob-squarepants\">SpongeBob SquarePants<\/a><\/em>, died on Monday. He was 57.<\/p>\n<p>The animator and former marine biology instructor created a powerhouse property with the quirky <em>SpongeBob SquarePants<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the global merchandise sales alone have gone north of $13 billion for a brand that has also yielded two animated feature films \u2014 with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/07\/the-spongebob-movie-new-release-date-july-2020-1202432567\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a third due in 2020<\/a> \u2014 nine music albums, a video game and a Tony-winning Broadway musical.<\/p>\n<p>Hillenburg revealed in March 2017 that he was battling\u00a0the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease. His death was announced today in a Nickelodeon statement that framed his singular sensibility, which gave the world a loopy but lovable classic of television animation.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/11\/spongebob-squarepants-creator-stephen-hillenburg-dead-at-57-1202509590\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at DEADLINE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from DEADLINE \u2018SpongeBob SquarePants\u2019 Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dead At\u00a057 by Geoff Boucher and Greg Evans Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Nickelodeon\u2019s signature cartoon series\u00a0SpongeBob SquarePants, died on Monday. He was 57. The animator and former marine biology instructor created a powerhouse property with the quirky SpongeBob SquarePants\u00a0\u2014 the global merchandise sales alone have gone north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}