{"id":4546,"date":"2017-02-07T19:18:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2017-02-09T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T16:20:55","slug":"rip-richard-hatch-apollo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/rip-richard-hatch-apollo\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Richard Hatch (Apollo)"},"content":{"rendered":"
DragonCon 2011, Richard Hatch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frak! Frak! Frak! I just learned that Richard Hatch passed away today and I am shocked. He was so full of life and energy when I saw him at DragonCon this past September. From what I understand he was diagnosed with cancer and passed away fairly sudden. Frak cancer! Stop taking so many people I love and admire.<\/p>\n

I first noticed Richard Hatch through his role in the Battlestar Galactica reboot. I really enjoyed his character and thought he had an incredible presence but that was all. It wasn\u2019t until I heard him speak during a panel at DragonCon that I became smitten. I had gone to a panel mostly for everyone else on the roster but Richard Hatch spoke so eloquently and passionately that I left the panel fangirling about how awesome he was. He was an actor, but he was also a teacher and you could tell. Everything he discussed he discussed with great care, thought and openness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I introduced myself to him later that day while he was sitting at his table eating a sandwich. I talked to him about the things he\u2019d said in his panel and complimented him on being so well and passionately spoken. He was delightful. He was a DragonCon staple so from that year onwards Karl and I always made it a point to see at least one of his panels each year and we began following his projects. This past September I got lucky and ran into him as I was stepping off an elevator in the Marriott. I was so delighted to see him that I stepped forward and asked if I could hug him. I told him he\u2019s awesome and that I love him as I hugged him and he told me I was sweet. It was a wonderful experience. I\u2019m glad I had the opportunity to get to know him through DragonCon. DC won\u2019t be the same without him. Rest in Peace Richard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frak! Frak! Frak! I just learned that Richard Hatch passed away today and I am shocked. He was so full of life and energy when I saw him at DragonCon this past September. From what I understand he was diagnosed with cancer and passed away fairly sudden. Frak cancer! Stop taking so many people I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2011-09-04_006.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-1bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}