{"id":16347,"date":"2011-02-23T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T01:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=16347"},"modified":"2011-02-23T11:28:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T01:58:50","slug":"vale-nicholas-courtney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2011\/02\/23\/vale-nicholas-courtney\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Nicholas Courtney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16348\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16348 \" title=\"Brigadier-Alastair-Gordon-Lethbridge-Stewart-Nicholas-Courtney\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Brigadier-Alastair-Gordon-Lethbridge-Stewart-Nicholas-Courtney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Brigadier-Alastair-Gordon-Lethbridge-Stewart-Nicholas-Courtney.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Brigadier-Alastair-Gordon-Lethbridge-Stewart-Nicholas-Courtney-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A part of my childhood died today, with news coming through about the passing of one of <em>Doctor Who&#8217;s<\/em> most loyal allies, Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart. Nicholas Courtney, the man who gave us the stiff-upper-lip military character, passed away today aged 81. He appeared with 6 of the first seven Doctors (he didn&#8217;t take part in any story featuring Colin Baker), and had reprised his most famous role in the <em>Doctor Who<\/em> spin-off, <em>The Sarah-Jane Chronicles<\/em>, last year. His most famous quote from the show, and I&#8217;m paraphrasing here: &#8220;Chap with the wings over there, five rounds rapid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sad day for Doctor Who fans around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A part of my childhood died today, with news coming through about the passing of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}