{"id":3024,"date":"2011-07-03T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T22:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2011-07-05T19:08:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T00:08:54","slug":"tragedy-strikes-the-star-wars-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2011\/07\/03\/tragedy-strikes-the-star-wars-community\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Tragedy Strikes the Star Wars Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have some very sad news to share as a great friend in the Yakface community has passed away tragically.\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Martinez, also known around the customizing community as Mercury Art Studios<\/strong>, was killed in a car accident on July 2.<\/p>\n

Mike was a moderator and active customizer in our forums<\/a>, and a full time staff member at Echobasenews.com<\/a> – he was also running a new customizing contest over there, which will still be completed – so if you have ever been into customizing, there would be no better tribute to a fellow collector than to enter a custom of your own into this contest that he worked so hard to put together here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The good folks at Imperialshipyards.net<\/a> are pitching in to help his family by collecting donations, and there has also been an outpouring of support and condolences on his Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Above all, Mike was a great person and a devoted father.\u00a0 He will be sorely missed and our prayers and thoughts are with his family and those closest to him.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0If you wish to send a donation directly to Mike’s fiancee Hollie, here is the Paypal address with which to do so. totalsurvey8@windstream.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have some very sad news to share as a great friend in the Yakface community has passed away tragically.\u00a0\u00a0 Mike Martinez, also known around the customizing community as Mercury Art Studios, was killed in a car accident on July 2. Mike was a moderator and active customizer in our forums, and a full time … Continue reading UPDATE: Tragedy Strikes the Star Wars Community<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customizing","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}