{"id":66077,"date":"2026-02-11T18:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/dawsons-creek-star-james-van-der-beek-dies-aged-48-video-obituary\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:02:46","slug":"dawsons-creek-star-james-van-der-beek-dies-aged-48-video-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/dawsons-creek-star-james-van-der-beek-dies-aged-48-video-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawson\u2019s Creek star James Van Der Beek dies aged 48 \u2013 video obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Van Der Beek, who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in Dawson\u2019s Creek and in later years mocking his own persona, has died at the age of 48. The actor revealed in 2024 that he was being treated for colorectal cancer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2026\/feb\/11\/james-van-der-beek-dies\">James Van Der Beek, star of Dawson\u2019s Creek, dies aged 48<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/video\/2026\/feb\/11\/dawsons-creek-star-james-van-der-beek-dies-aged-48-video-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Van Der Beek, who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in Dawson\u2019s Creek and in later years mocking his own persona, has died at the age of 48. The actor revealed in 2024 that he was being treated for colorectal cancer. James &#8230; <a title=\"Dawson\u2019s Creek star James Van Der Beek dies aged 48 \u2013 video obituary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/dawsons-creek-star-james-van-der-beek-dies-aged-48-video-obituary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dawson\u2019s Creek star James Van Der Beek dies aged 48 \u2013 video obituary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}