{"id":6859,"date":"2007-01-08T07:12:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T07:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/08\/slan-magnus\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T07:12:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T07:12:56","slug":"slan-magnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2007\/01\/08\/slan-magnus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sl\u00e1n Magnus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The black chair, the narrow light, the arms on chair, closeup on the face.\u00a0\u00a0I can&#8217;t be the only one\u00a0whose heart raced worrying some individual in the leather chair wouldn&#8217;t remember some tiny detail from some literary tome or the name of an obscure river in Panama? Bless, bless (sp?) as they say in his Native Icelandic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/site\/story\/0,,1985125,00.html\">http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/site\/story\/0,,1985125,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Magnus Magnusson, best known for his 25-year reign as Mastermind&#8217;s formidable and cerebral inquisitor, has died, aged 77.<\/p>\n<p>The TV presenter, journalist, historian and author will be remembered for his catchphrase &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;ve started, so I&#8217;ll finish&#8221; &#8211; heard often during his interrogation of subjects in the black leather chair.<\/p>\n<p>Magnusson hosted Mastermind on the BBC from 1972 until 1997, making him synonymous with a quiz show that gained mass appeal and up to 22 million viewers, and paved the way for today&#8217;s more aggressive formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The black chair, the narrow light, the arms on chair, closeup on the face.\u00a0\u00a0I can&#8217;t be the only one\u00a0whose heart raced worrying some individual in the leather chair wouldn&#8217;t remember some tiny detail from some literary tome or the name of an obscure river in Panama? Bless, bless (sp?) as they say in his Native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}