{"id":23824,"date":"2026-02-12T08:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23824"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:17:17","slug":"i-dont-want-to-wait-for-our-lives-to-be-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/i-dont-want-to-wait-for-our-lives-to-be-over\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want To Wait For Our Lives To Be Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dawsons-creek-cast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23825\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dawsons-creek-cast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dawsons-creek-cast.jpg 675w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dawsons-creek-cast-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dawsons-creek-cast-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a>James Van Der Beek, titular star of the iconic teen soap series <em>Dawson&#8217;s Creek<\/em>, passed away yesterday at the age of 48.\u00a0 Van Der Beek announced he had been diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer in November of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Van Der Beek rose to fame starring as Dawson Leery on the WB hit drama.\u00a0 He would later play a fictionalized version of himself on <em>Don&#8217;t Trust the B&#8212;- in Apartment 23<\/em>.\u00a0 On the big screen, he was known for his starring role in <i>Varsity Blues<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Van Der Beek is survived by his wife and their six children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Van Der Beek, titular star of the iconic teen soap series Dawson&#8217;s Creek, passed away yesterday at the age of 48.\u00a0 Van Der Beek announced he had been diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer in November of 2024. Van Der Beek rose to fame starring as Dawson Leery on the WB hit drama.\u00a0 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[2927,2554,2557,860,12354],"class_list":["post-23824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-dawsons-creek","tag-dont-trust-the-b-in-apt-23","tag-james-van-der-beek","tag-the-wb","tag-varsity-blues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23826,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23824\/revisions\/23826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}