{"id":724,"date":"2009-01-14T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=724"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:50:30","slug":"patrick-mcgoohan-the-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Patrick McGoohan &#8211; The Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was looking at The Sun&#8217;s website for that UFO story I came across the news that <a title=\"Patrick McGoohan Dies Aged 80\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/article2131855.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Patrick McGoohan has died<\/a> at the age of 80.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_740\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"size-full wp-image-740 lazyload\" title=\"Patrick McGoohan\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/pmcg.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick McGoohan\" width=\"150\" height=\"207\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/207;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick McGoohan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He was the star of the cult classic from the 60s: <a title=\"The Prisoner Appreciation Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sixofone.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The Prisoner<\/a>. But he also starred in  Danger Man  before that, and in films such as  The Man In The Iron Mask ,  Escape From Alcatraz , and  Silver Streak .<\/p>\n<p> The Prisoner  was something I remember vaguely\u00a0from my childhood, and it is re-run on satellite every now and again. So I was saddened to hear of Patrick&#8217;s death after what is described as &#8216;a short illness&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I was always surprised he didn&#8217;t appear in more films, although he did get award nominations for his appearances in those American TV pseudo-films (Columbo, etc.). I suppose time catches up with us all &#8211; but it&#8217;s always especially sad when an icon from the past dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was looking at The Sun&#8217;s website for that UFO story I came across the news that Patrick McGoohan has died at the age of 80. He was the star of the cult classic from the 60s: The Prisoner. But he also starred in Danger Man before that, and in films such as The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}