{"id":9765,"date":"2019-05-03T18:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9765"},"modified":"2019-05-05T18:41:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T01:41:41","slug":"chewbacca-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/03\/chewbacca-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Chewbacca Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from CNN (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/02\/entertainment\/peter-mayhew-star-wars-dead-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from CNN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca in &#8216;Star Wars,&#8217; dies at 74<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/kendall-trammell\">Kendall Trammell<\/a><strong>&nbsp;and Jamiel Lynch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gGPi-JqG7-A\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Peter Mayhew,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/18\/entertainment\/peter-mayhew-star-wars-script-feat\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the original Chewbacca<\/a>, has died, according to his agent.<\/p>\n<p>Mayhew, 74, died on April 30 with his family by his side in his North Texas home. He is survived by his wife, Angie, and three children.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood icon played Chewbacca in the original\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/26\/us\/star-wars-religion\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Star Wars&#8221; trilogy<\/a>, episode 3 of the prequels and the New Trilogy, according to a statement from his family.Mayhew, who once\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/chewbacca-tsa-light-saber-cane\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used a wheelchair because of a bum knee<\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0stood tall to portray Chewbacca once more in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/16\/entertainment\/star-wars-force-awakens-review-thr-feat\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/a>.&#8221; He also consulted on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/12\/entertainment\/star-wars-the-last-jedi-review\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Last Jedi<\/a>&#8221; to help teach his successor.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/02\/entertainment\/peter-mayhew-star-wars-dead-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at CNN (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca in &#8216;Star Wars,&#8217; dies at 74 By&nbsp;Kendall Trammell&nbsp;and Jamiel Lynch Peter Mayhew,\u00a0the original Chewbacca, has died, according to his agent. Mayhew, 74, died on April 30 with his family by his side in his North Texas home. He is survived by his wife, Angie, and three children. The Hollywood icon [&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-9765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765","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=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}