{"id":442,"date":"2013-02-24T11:51:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T00:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=442"},"modified":"2013-02-24T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T01:00:38","slug":"a-sad-column-this-time-for-sunday-supervillainy-death-of-ray-cusick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/24\/a-sad-column-this-time-for-sunday-supervillainy-death-of-ray-cusick\/","title":{"rendered":"A sad column this time for Sunday Supervillainy &#8211; death of Ray Cusick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/24\/a-sad-column-this-time-for-sunday-supervillainy-death-of-ray-cusick\/dalek_2010_redesign\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-443\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/files\/2013\/02\/Dalek_2010_Redesign-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The sad news this morning is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-21563344\">the announcement<\/a>\u00a0that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raymond_Cusick\">Ray Cusick<\/a>, designer of the Daleks for the long-running <em>Doctor Who<\/em> television series, has died. He was 84. According to reports, he died in his sleep of heart failure after a short illness.<\/p>\n<p>He has certainly left behind a popular and enduring legacy with the famous salt-shaker design of the murderous Daleks. My sympathy and good wishes to his\u00a0surviving loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sad news this morning is the announcement\u00a0that Ray Cusick, designer of the Daleks for the long-running Doctor Who television series, has died. He was 84. According to reports, he died in his sleep of heart failure after a short illness. He has certainly left behind a popular and enduring legacy with the famous salt-shaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,37],"tags":[193,192,191,31],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-in-the-news","tag-daleks","tag-obituaries","tag-ray-cusick","tag-sunday-supervillainy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}