{"id":5685,"date":"2005-04-24T20:49:43","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T19:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5685"},"modified":"2005-04-24T20:49:43","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T19:49:43","slug":"sir-john-mills-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/04\/24\/sir-john-mills-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir John Mills, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Mills <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/film\/4477555.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">died yesterday at the age of 97<\/a>. I always think of him saying something like &quot;you simply have to, old bean, you simply have to!&quot; or some other such earnestness whilst sitting in the tail gunner&#8217;s seat of a World War 2 bomber. His characters always seemed to be earnest. Perhaps that was my own misconception.<br \/>\nI remember one evening, many years ago, going into the Bell pub in Chichester. The Bell is directly opposite the Festival Theatre. As we walked in, my friend Louise was in a bit of rush, not really looking where she was going, and careered straight into John Mills as he was coming out. Neither party was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Mills died yesterday at the age of 97. I always think of him saying something like &quot;you simply have to, old bean, you simply have to!&quot; or some other such earnestness whilst sitting in the tail gunner&#8217;s seat of a World War 2 bomber. His characters always seemed to be earnest. Perhaps that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chichester","category-current-affairs","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}