{"id":8103,"date":"2017-01-13T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8103"},"modified":"2017-01-16T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T19:37:29","slug":"william-peter-blatty-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/13\/william-peter-blatty-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"William Peter Blatty Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2608258\/the-exorcist-william-p-blatty-dead-aged-89\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Sun<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>William Peter Blatty dead aged 89 as tributes pour in for The Exorcist author<\/h1>\n<p>BY JOHN SHAMMAS<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2608258\/the-exorcist-william-p-blatty-dead-aged-89\/#\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2608551 size-thesun-article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/nintchdbpict0002489318631.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=960\" alt=\"Linda Blair in 1973 playing the possessed child\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE legendary horror writer who penned The Exorcist has passed away at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tvandshowbiz\/2608309\/william-peter-blatty-exorcist-dead-89\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Peter\u00a0Blatty\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0death was confirmed on social media by the film\u2019s director William Friedkin this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The writer won the Oscar in 1973 for his screenplay, based on his own book that was published in 1971 which told the story of a child possessed by a demon.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to the film\u2019s success, the possessed child\u2019s image has become iconic among horror fans.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2608258\/the-exorcist-william-p-blatty-dead-aged-89\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Sun<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Sun William Peter Blatty dead aged 89 as tributes pour in for The Exorcist author BY JOHN SHAMMAS THE legendary horror writer who penned The Exorcist has passed away at the age of 89. William Peter\u00a0Blatty\u2019s\u00a0death was confirmed on social media by the film\u2019s director William Friedkin this afternoon. The writer won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}