{"id":24059,"date":"2020-08-02T14:35:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T18:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24059"},"modified":"2020-08-02T14:35:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T18:35:50","slug":"rip-wilford-brimley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24059","title":{"rendered":"RIP &#8211; Wilford Brimley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2020\/z080220rip_wilfredbrimley.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wilford Brimley died yesterday at the age of 85 after being hospitalized for two months with kidney problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I first saw Wilfred Brimley in an uncredited role with John Wayne in <em>True Grit<\/em>.\u00a0 At that point I had no idea who Wilfred Brimley was, but that would all change with his tv appearances in<em> Kung Fu<\/em>, <em>The Waltons<\/em>, <em>How the West was Won<\/em> and <em>The Wild, Wild West Revisited<\/em>.\u00a0 After that it wasn&#8217;t surprising to see Brimley popping up in movies (<em>The Electric Horseman<\/em>, <em>Brubaker<\/em>, <em>Absence of Malice<\/em>) or television (<em>Walker, Texas Ranger<\/em>; <em>Seinfeld<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favorite Wilfred Brimley roles were in <em>The Thing<\/em> and <em>Hard Target<\/em>, but it didn&#8217;t matter the role or movie, Wilfred Brimley always made it better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to Wilfred Brimley&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilford Brimley died yesterday at the age of 85 after being hospitalized for two months with kidney problems. I first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24060,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions\/24060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}