{"id":6886,"date":"2004-05-25T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T18:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/05\/25\/milligan-gets-last-laugh-on-grave\/"},"modified":"2004-05-25T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T18:13:35","slug":"milligan-gets-last-laugh-on-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/05\/milligan-gets-last-laugh-on-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Milligan gets last laugh on grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Comedy legend Spike Milligan has finally got the last laugh, more than two years after his death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">It follows an agreement with the local diocese over the wording on the headstone of his grave at St Thomas&#8217;s Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Relatives of the former Goon have now decided that it can bear the star&#8217;s epitaph: &#8220;I told you I was ill.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">However, the inscription had to be written in Gaelic in order for it to be approved by the Chichester Diocese.<br \/> [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/southern_counties\/3742443.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy legend Spike Milligan has finally got the last laugh, more than two years after his death. It follows an agreement with the local diocese over the wording on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}