{"id":103148,"date":"2020-08-02T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103148"},"modified":"2020-08-02T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T15:46:35","slug":"actor-and-former-marine-wilford-brimley-dies-age-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103148","title":{"rendered":"Actor and former Marine Wilford Brimley dies, age 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f5\/Wilford_Brimley.jpg\/333px-Wilford_Brimley.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"405\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wilford Brimley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Multiple sources are reporting that longtime actor Wilford Brimley has passed away after battling a kidney disease. Known for his role in Cocoon and as the spokesman for Quaker Oats, the affable character actor had dozens of roles to his credit.<\/p>\n<p>Before taking up a career in acting and hawking &#8220;diabeetus&#8221; supplies, Brimley served with the USMC. Serving from 1953 to 1956, he was stationed in the Aleutian Islands. He&#8217;d risen to the rank of Sergeant by the time he mustered out.<\/p>\n<p>My personal favorite role Brimley had was as the Postmaster General in an episode of Seinfeld.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sMqt1uAxibw?start=185\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple sources are reporting that longtime actor Wilford Brimley has passed away after battling a kidney &hellip; <a title=\"Actor and former Marine Wilford Brimley dies, age 85\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103148\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Actor and former Marine Wilford Brimley dies, age 85<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103150,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103148\/revisions\/103150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}