{"id":39040,"date":"2017-06-23T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39040"},"modified":"2017-06-21T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:46:30","slug":"patrick-macnee-of-the-avengers-on-alcoholism-and-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/patrick-macnee-of-the-avengers-on-alcoholism-and-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick MacNee of <em>The Avengers<\/em> on alcoholism and his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ADkMGo9U_4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on Apr 30, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patrick talks about his mother began to identify as a lesbian. His father moved to India, and his mother began to live with her wealthy partner, Evelyn Spottswood, whose money came from the Dewar&#8217;s whisky business. He called her Uncle Evelyn and he despised her.<\/p>\n<p>He talks about his battle with Alcohol, being a Grandfather, working with Diana Rigg and his book <em>Blind In One Ear<\/em>. He has a delicious sense of humor and such a fun interview.<\/p>\n<p>He was best known for his role as the secret agent John Steed in the British television series <em>The Avengers<\/em>. Patrick died in June of 2015 at age 93.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Apr 30, 2017 Patrick talks about his mother began to identify as a lesbian. His father moved to India, and his mother began to live with her wealthy partner, Evelyn Spottswood, whose money came from the Dewar&#8217;s whisky business. He called her Uncle Evelyn and he despised her. He talks about his battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[32,4,28],"tags":[311,1125,101],"class_list":["post-39040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-media","tag-1960s","tag-theavengers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a9G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39041,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040\/revisions\/39041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}