{"id":1756,"date":"2001-04-11T13:43:40","date_gmt":"2001-04-11T11:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2015-05-11T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:45:56","slug":"nick-wechsler-in-j-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/04\/nick-wechsler-in-j-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wechsler In J-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to MyrnaLynne for this:<\/p>\n<p>Nick is in the May 2001 issue of &#8216;J-14&#8217; on p. 47 (Shiri picture in the horoscopes on p. 35 for Sagittarius).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;TV Boys: How they Found Fame&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nick Wexler&#8221; [that&#8217;s how they spelled it!]\n<p>Teacher&#8217;s intervention: Nick&#8217;s 10th grade teacher Ms. Tippit helped him launch his career after seeing how much potential he possessed. &#8220;She got the school to sponsor me to attend this film acting workshop,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;That&#8217;s kind of what got me thinking about getting into acting professionally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wrestlemania: Before being bitten by the acting bug, Nick was a star on his school&#8217;s wrestling team. He loved slamming his opponents, but could have done without the weekly weight-ins. &#8220;I&#8221;m really shy about being naked in front of strangers,&#8221; he confesses.<\/p>\n<p>Road to success: After graduating from high school in 1996, Nick headed for L.A. His first role was in a made-for-TV movie called &#8220;Full Circle.&#8221; After stints on two cancelled shows, the call for &#8220;Roswell&#8221; came. Betch didn&#8217;t know Nick originally auditioned for Colin Hanks&#8217; role of Alex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to MyrnaLynne for this: Nick is in the May 2001 issue of &#8216;J-14&#8217; on p. 47 (Shiri picture in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2380],"tags":[284,74],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading","category-nick-wechsler","tag-j-14","tag-nick-wechsler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28666,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/28666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}