{"id":14490,"date":"2020-09-10T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2020-09-10T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:04:38","slug":"r-i-p-diana-rigg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14490","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Diana Rigg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Avengers TV Intro - Season 5 - 1966\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/10QW3Az1FTw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dame Diana Rigg<\/strong> (1938-2020) died today in London. An accomplished actress whose intelligence always shone through the camera lens, she first became famous playing Emma Peel in the classic English TV series, &#8220;The Avengers&#8221; (not to be confused with the Marvel franchise; see the intro and outro credits above). She had a long and successful career, playing the only Bond girl to actually marry the spy in &#8220;On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service,&#8221; and most recently carrying a role on &#8220;Game of Thrones.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was desperately in love with her in her &#8220;Avengers&#8221; days. According to my reading, she was a practicing member of the Anglican Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dame Diana Rigg (1938-2020) died today in London. An accomplished actress whose intelligence always shone through the camera lens, she first became famous playing Emma Peel in the classic English TV series, &#8220;The Avengers&#8221; (not to be confused with the Marvel franchise; see the intro and outro credits above). She had a long and successful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">R.I.P. Diana Rigg<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[765,2780],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diana-rigg","tag-the-avengers"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14492,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions\/14492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}