{"id":120,"date":"2011-09-12T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-09-12T03:24:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T03:24:01","slug":"transmissions-andy-whitfield-star-of-spartacus-blood-and-sand-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: Andy Whitfield, Star of Spartacus: Blood and Sand has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Whitfield, known to American audiences as Spartacus has passed away at the age of<a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/andy-whitfield_52845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-125\" title=\"andy-whitfield_52845\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/andy-whitfield_52845-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/andy-whitfield_52845-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/andy-whitfield_52845.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a> 39. According to his manager Sam Maydew, Whitfield died Sunday of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Sydney, Australia.<!--more--><br \/>\nWhitfield was an unknown in the States when he was cast as the hero Spartacus in the hit Starz Channel series, <em>Spartacus: Blood and Sand<\/em>. He was diagnosed with cancer 18 months ago just as the second season was going into production.<br \/>\nWhitfield was born in the U.K., grew up in Wales and studied at Sheffield University in England. He moved to Australia 12 years ago, attended drama school in Sydney and gained work as an actor, while also working as a diagnostic engineer, a job that required him to rappel down tall buildings.<br \/>\nIn a statement release by his wife Vashti, she called her husband a \u201cbeautiful young warrior\u201d who died on a \u201csunny Sydney morning\u201d in the \u201carms of his loving wife.\u201d<br \/>\nWhitfield was recently replaced by Liam McIntyre for the second season of Spartacus now called,\u00a0<em>Spartacus:\u00a0Vengeance<\/em> which begins airing in January 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Whitfield is survived by his wife and two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Whitfield, known to American audiences as Spartacus has passed away at the age of 39. According to his manager Sam Maydew, Whitfield died Sunday of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Sydney, Australia.<\/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":[7],"tags":[61,14,62,63],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmissions","tag-andy-whitfield","tag-james","tag-spartacus","tag-starz-channel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","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=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}