Source: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nAside from this, Dempsey, the Grey’s Anatomy<\/em> star shared on Instagram: \u201cI am shocked, and deeply saddened by last night\u2019s tragedy in my hometown, Lewiston, Maine. Maine\u2019s great strength is its sense of community, and now we are being asked to come together to support everyone that has been devastated by this senseless act.\u201d Maine native and writer Stephen King also shared his thoughts on X, writing, \u201cThe shootings occurred less than 50 miles from where I live. I went to high school in Lisbon. It\u2019s the rapid-fire killing machines, people. This is madness in the name of freedom. Stop electing apologists for murder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood star Patrick Dempsey and other Maine natives, including author Stephen King and actor Timothy Simons, have responded with shock and grief following the devastating mass shooting event that took place in the Maine city of Lewiston. Their reaction is another indication of the far-reaching impact of the tragedy, which left at least 18 people […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,13],"tags":[774,1294,1607,1444,1519,6690,6691,6689,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21905,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21893\/revisions\/21905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}