{"id":7760,"date":"2012-07-09T21:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2012-07-09T22:28:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T12:28:49","slug":"r-i-p-ernest-borgnine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7760","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P Ernest Borgnine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/borgnine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7768\" title=\"borgnine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/borgnine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/borgnine.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/borgnine-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was saddened to wake up this morning to the news of Ernest Borgnine&#8217;s passing, at the ripe old age of 95.\u00a0 As an actor, Borgnine had a career spanning <em>eight decades<\/em> and featured in over 200 different television shows and movies.\u00a0 For many people, he&#8217;ll be best remembered for his roles in <em>The Wild Bunch<\/em> and <em>The Poseidon Adventure<\/em>.\u00a0 For me, I&#8217;ll always have fond memories of his role as the cantankerous co-pilot Dominic Santini in the Eighties action tv show <em>Airwolf<\/em>.\u00a0 He was a terrific, boisterous prescense on the screen in that show.\u00a0 You could tell he was having a blast playing the character and his cheerful temperment made him the perfect companion to the poe-faced Stringfellow Hawke.\u00a0 He had all the qualities of an endearing uncle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To honour his memory, I&#8217;ll be firing up my <em>Airwolf Season One and Two<\/em> DVDs and cherry-picking a few of my favourite episodes to watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">R.I.P\u00a0 Ernest Borgnine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lvc48tWFn8s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to wake up this morning to the news of Ernest Borgnine&#8217;s passing, at the ripe old age of 95.\u00a0 As an actor, Borgnine had a career spanning eight decades and featured in over 200 different television shows and movies.\u00a0 For many people, he&#8217;ll be best remembered for his roles in The Wild &#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":[1317,1316,1315],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-airwolf","tag-dominic-santini","tag-ernest-borgnine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","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=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7772,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}