{"id":61571,"date":"2018-10-06T15:39:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T13:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/06\/ray-galton-co-creator-of-steptoe-and-son-dies-aged-88\/"},"modified":"2018-10-06T15:39:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T13:39:45","slug":"ray-galton-co-creator-of-steptoe-and-son-dies-aged-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=61571","title":{"rendered":"Ray Galton, co-creator of Steptoe and Son, dies aged 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scriptwriter worked with Alan Simpson on sitcoms including Hancock\u2019s Half HourRay Galton, one half of the Galton and Simpson writing duo who createdground-breaking sitcoms such as Hancock\u2019s Half Hour and Steptoe and Son, has died aged 88.The scriptwriter died on Friday night after a \u201clong and heartbreaking battle with dementia\u201d, his family said in a statement. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2018\/oct\/06\/ray-galton-co-creator-of-steptoe-and-son-dies-aged-88\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Galton, co-creator of Steptoe and Son, dies aged 88<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scriptwriter worked with Alan Simpson on sitcoms including Hancock\u2019s Half HourRay Galton, one half of the Galton and Simpson writing duo who createdground-breaking sitcoms such as Hancock\u2019s Half Hour and Steptoe and Son, has died aged 88.The scriptwriter died on Friday night after a \u201clong and heartbreaking battle with dementia\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}