{"id":1430,"date":"2013-02-18T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2013-02-18T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T18:26:39","slug":"richard-briers-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/02\/18\/richard-briers-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Briers has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite actors has died. Richard Briers, age 79, star of &#8220;The Good Life,&#8221; (also known as &#8220;Good Neighbors&#8221;), &#8220;Ever-Decreasing Circles,&#8221; and various Shakespearean plays, films, etc. has died.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Branagh remembered Briers as &#8220;a national treasure, a great actor and a wonderful man. He was greatly loved and he will be deeply\u00a0missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Born Jan. 14, 1934, Briers trained at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=entertainment%2Ftelevision&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22Royal+Academy+of+Dramatic+Art%22\">Royal Academy of Dramatic Art<\/a>in London and worked consistently in theater, film and television for more than half a\u00a0century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His latest film was called &#8220;Cockneys Vs. Zombies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My kinda guy. I loved this collaboration with the infamous Mr. Bean. I laughed out loud watching him try to sing the hymn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mr  Bean The Church\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tPGO5LSMJAU?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><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll miss him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/entertainment\/television\/article\/British-actor-Richard-Briers-dies-at-79-4287337.php\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.fitzsimons.9\">Jim Fitzsimons<\/a> for bringing this to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One of my favorite actors has died. Richard Briers, age 79, star of &#8220;The Good Life,&#8221; (also known as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}