{"id":31715,"date":"2014-11-17T01:38:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T17:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=31715"},"modified":"2014-11-17T01:38:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T17:38:05","slug":"actor-patrick-dempsey-honored-for-cancer-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/17\/actor-patrick-dempsey-honored-for-cancer-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Patrick Dempsey honored for cancer care"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31849\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_79875778.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31849\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_79875778.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Dempsey (cinemafestival \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_79875778.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_79875778-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_79875778-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Dempsey (cinemafestival \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PORTLAND, Maine \u2014 Maine-born actor Patrick Dempsey returned home to accept an award for his work helping cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>Dempsey \u2014 most famous for his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd in the TV series &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221; \u2014 and the Jackson Laboratory were awarded the Maine Creative Industries Award on Saturday in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-eight-year-old Dempsey was inspired by his mother&#8217;s battle with ovarian cancer to help found the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope &amp; Healing at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. His mother, Amanda Dempsey, died in March. The Jackson Lab is a genetics research facility in Bar Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>The award is given by the nonprofit Maine Center for Creativity, which said both recipients were honored for their &#8220;visionary thinking and persistence in helping cancer patients&#8221; in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Maine \u2014 Maine-born actor Patrick Dempsey returned home to accept an award for his work helping cancer patients. Dempsey &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":31849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}