{"id":2204180,"date":"2025-12-18T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2204180"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:40:18","slug":"james-van-der-beek-to-share-cancer-update-to-craig-melvin-on-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/james-van-der-beek-to-share-cancer-update-to-craig-melvin-on-today\/","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek to Share Cancer Update to Craig Melvin on \u2018Today\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Craig Melvin<\/a> had a good reason for missing the Wednesday, December 17, episode of Today. Melvin\u2019s colleagues noted on Wednesday that he was out on assignment. Later that day, Melvin took to Instagram to share the reason for his absence. Melvin traveled to Texas to sit down for a candid conversation with actor James Van Der Beek<\/a>. \u201cSpent the day in TX on James Van Der Beek\u2019s ranch (@vanderjames),\u201d Melvin captioned behind-the-scenes photos from the interview. \u201cOvercast and dreary outside but James is quite the ray of positivity these days. It was refreshing and inspiring. We talked about where he is on his journey, the importance of cancer screenings,…<\/div>\n

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Craig Melvin had a good reason for missing the Wednesday, December 17, episode of Today. Melvin\u2019s colleagues noted on Wednesday that he was out on assignment. Later that day, Melvin took to Instagram to share the reason for his absence. Melvin traveled to Texas to sit down for a candid conversation with actor James Van […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2204181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2204180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/James-Van-Der-Beek-to-Share-Cancer-Update-to-Craig.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204182,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204180\/revisions\/2204182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}