{"id":12457,"date":"2014-02-04T17:39:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T07:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2014-02-04T21:50:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:50:17","slug":"r-i-p-phillip-seymour-hoffman-1967-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=12457","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P  Phillip Seymour Hoffman  1967-2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VLR_TDO0FTg\" height=\"354\" width=\"629\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was saddened to hear about the passing of Phillip Seymour Hoffman yesterday.\u00a0 Hoffman was found dead in his apartment due to an overdose on heroin.\u00a0 Apparently he had relapsed into a drug addiction from which he had stayed sober for two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman was one of my favourite actors of the past decade.\u00a0 I first came to know him from his bit part role as Brandt in the Coen Brothers film <em>The Big Lebowski<\/em>.\u00a0 But he really was one of the most talented and capable actors of the past decade and his performances were the centerpiece for many great films.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t had a chance to see Hoffman at his best, it&#8217;s worth checking out <em>The Master, Synecdoche New York, Capote<\/em> and <em>Before The Devil Knows Your Dead<\/em>.\u00a0 Or if you want to just see the guy having a bit of fun, check out his work in <em>Mission Impossible III<\/em> and the most recent <em>Hunger Games<\/em> film.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame that despite being such an incredible, versatile actor who appeared in a lot of films that I enjoyed, he wasn&#8217;t able to conquer his demons and had his life cut short way, way too soon.<\/p>\n<p>R.I.P\u00a0 Phillip Seymour Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raindance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman_l.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to hear about the passing of Phillip Seymour Hoffman yesterday.\u00a0 Hoffman was found dead in his apartment due to an overdose on heroin.\u00a0 Apparently he had relapsed into a drug addiction from which he had stayed sober for two decades. Hoffman was one of my favourite actors of the past decade.\u00a0 I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1122],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-phillip-seymour-hoffman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12459,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions\/12459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}