{"id":5979,"date":"2026-03-24T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/kevin-dicicco-dead\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:54:08","slug":"kevin-dicicco-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/kevin-dicicco-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Air Bud&#8217; Creator Kevin DiCicco Dead at 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kevin DiCicco\u00a0&#8212; the creator of &#8220;Air Bud,&#8221; who had fallen on hard times in recent years &#8212; has died &#8230; TMZ has learned. Kevin&#8217;s brother Mark tells TMZ &#8230; Kevin passed away Saturday after spending some time in hospice. We&#8217;re told Kevin smoked\u2026<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin DiCicco\u00a0&#8212; the creator of &#8220;Air Bud,&#8221; who had fallen on hard times in recent years &#8212; has died &#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}