{"id":12366,"date":"2018-11-27T13:43:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T21:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12366"},"modified":"2018-11-28T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:45:04","slug":"spongebob-squarepants-creator-stephen-hillenburg-dies-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12366","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SpongeBob Squarepants\u2019 Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dies at 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/assets\/media\/img\/mt\/2018\/11\/spongebob\/lead_720_405.jpg?mod=1543379911\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk e2kc3sl0\">Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine biology teacher who created a children\u2019s show that ballooned into an unlikely cultural phenomenon, \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"The official website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nick.com\/spongebob-squarepants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpongeBob SquarePants<\/a>,\u201d died on Monday at his home in Southern California. He was 57.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk e2kc3sl0\">Mr. Hillenburg announced last year that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the neurodegenerative condition known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease. Nickelodeon, the channel that has been the show\u2019s home since its premiere in May 1999, announced his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine biology&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12367,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12366\/revisions\/12367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}