{"id":1974,"date":"2016-05-21T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:19:48","slug":"alan-young-mr-eds-straight-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"Alan Young, Mr. Ed&#8217;s straight man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another silly show from the 60&#8217;s. As I date myself &#8230; check the picture &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2016\/may\/21\/mr-eds-straight-man-alan-young-dies-aged-96?utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&amp;utm_term=173366&amp;subid=8183239&amp;CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2\">Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed, has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home said on Friday. He was 96.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1ea33d5970c-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13461\" title=\"Alan young mr. ed\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1ea33d5970c-320wi.jpg 320w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1ea33d5970c-320wi-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another silly show from the 60&#8217;s. As I date myself &#8230; check the picture &#8211; Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed, has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home said on Friday. He was 96.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13462,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/13462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}