{"id":1172524,"date":"2022-08-10T07:44:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T07:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/obituary-raymond-briggs\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T07:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T07:44:47","slug":"obituary-raymond-briggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/10\/obituary-raymond-briggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Raymond Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/_93648091_mediaitem93648090.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">His portrayal of a Father Christmas, overworked, curmudgeonly and always complaining about the weather, in particular the \u201cbloomin\u2019 snow\u201d, proved an immediate hit, winning him a second Kate Greenaway Medal. Both it and a 1975 sequel, Father Christmas Goes on Holiday, were later adapted as animated films with comedian Mel Smith voicing the eponymous character.<\/p>\n<p>Source <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His portrayal of a Father Christmas, overworked, curmudgeonly and always complaining about the weather, in particular the \u201cbloomin\u2019 snow\u201d, proved an immediate hit, winning him a second Kate Greenaway Medal. Both it and a 1975 sequel, Father Christmas Goes on Holiday, were later adapted as animated films with comedian Mel Smith voicing the eponymous character. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}