{"id":1998,"date":"2009-06-19T19:52:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T02:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2009-06-19T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T02:53:10","slug":"pixar-grants-a-girls-dying-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/06\/19\/pixar-grants-a-girls-dying-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixar Grant&#8217;s a Girl&#8217;s Dying Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1999\" title=\"PixarUp\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/PixarUp-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"PixarUp\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/PixarUp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/PixarUp.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em>Disney&#8217;s Pixar Animation Studio<\/em> received a message from a friend of the family of ten-year-old Colby Curtin who was dying of cancer.\u00a0 The message told Pixar that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/pixar-up-movie-2468059-home-show\"> the girl wanted to stay alive long enough to see <em>Up<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 She was too sick to risk being moved to a movie theater and a DVD was the only possible option.\u00a0 It seems that Pixar management dispatched an employee to the girl&#8217;s home with a DVD, a poster and some toys based on the movie.\u00a0 The girl was able to enjoy the screening even though she could not open her eyes.\u00a0 As the movie played, her mother described the images on screen.\u00a0 The girl passed away several hours later with her family at her side.<\/p>\n<p>This is sad story, but it&#8217;s a great thing Pixar did and it was a wonderful wish for a little girl to have.\u00a0 Very nice.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure this simple act by a few people at a big company made a sick little girl very happy in her last hours.\u00a0 Well done, Pixar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney&#8217;s Pixar Animation Studio received a message from a friend of the family of ten-year-old Colby Curtin who was dying of cancer.\u00a0 The message told Pixar that the girl wanted to stay alive long enough to see Up.\u00a0 She was too sick to risk being moved to a movie theater and a DVD was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,71],"tags":[404],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-public-service","tag-pixar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}