{"id":11966,"date":"2015-06-11T14:43:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=11966"},"modified":"2015-06-11T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:43:20","slug":"christopher-lee-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=11966","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Lee Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have sad news to report today, Sir Christopher Lee has passed a<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/christopher_lee1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11967\" style=\"width: 225px;\" alt=\"christopher_lee1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/christopher_lee1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/span>way. Lee who starred in many of the Hammer horror films of the 1950s was 93. Younger fans will know Lee from his appearances in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and as Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels. <!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Aside from being a great actor, Christopher Lee was also a decorated war veteran. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">He leaves us with a great film legacy that will last forever.<\/span> Our thoughts are with his family and friends.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have sad news to report today, Sir Christopher Lee has passed away. Lee who starred in many of the Hammer horror films of the 1950s was 93. Younger fans will know Lee from his appearances in the Lord of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=11966\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4041,4042,4043,4045,4046,4044,2152],"class_list":["post-11966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christopher-lee","tag-hammer-horror-films","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-star-wars-attack-of-the-clones","tag-star-wars-revenge-of-the-sith","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings","tag-the-man-with-the-golden-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11968,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions\/11968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}