{"id":17,"date":"2005-10-02T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/02\/would-you-believe-don-adams-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2006-02-01T20:33:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T01:33:27","slug":"would-you-believe-don-adams-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/02\/would-you-believe-don-adams-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you believe Don Adams is dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just found this out today, but Don Adams (Maxwell Smart for those who don’t recognize the actor’s name) died last weekend. Here’s the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I always found him hilarious as Smart, and think of him fondly, even though the rest of his career was less impressive. I’d certainly rank Get Smart<\/em> as one of the funniest TV shows ever, though that owes as much to the writing (by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry) as to Adams. There’s a lot I didn’t know about him, and found out from the news reports, such as his service in WWII.<\/p>\n

I originally found out about this from the message boards at the comics site Sequential Tart<\/a>. As one of the posters there suggested, let’s observe a moment in the Cone of Silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just found this out today, but Don Adams (Maxwell Smart for those who don’t recognize the actor’s name) died last weekend. Here’s the story. I always found him hilarious as Smart, and think of him fondly, even though the rest of his career was less impressive. I’d certainly rank Get Smart as one of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}