{"id":243,"date":"2009-01-15T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=243"},"modified":"2023-08-25T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:13:42","slug":"be-seeing-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2009\/01\/15\/be-seeing-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Seeing You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/mcgoohan04b.jpg?resize=297%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\" alt=\"Be Seeing You\" title=\"Be Seeing You\" border=\"0\" width=\"297\" height=\"380\" \/> &#8220;Who are you?&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The new Number Two.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n &#8220;Who is Number One?&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;You are Number Six.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/15\/arts\/15mcgoohan.html\">Patrick McGoohan<\/a> passed away yesterday at the age of 80. He will long be remembered as No. 6, the eponymous Prisoner kidnapped and deposited in the Village after retiring from his life as a spy.<\/p>\n<p>From the story concept to the unforgettable visual design, McGoohan&#8217;s <em>The Prisoner<\/em> remains a landmark television show, one of those rare series that extends the medium beyond its boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t yet experienced the brilliance of <em>The Prisoner<\/em>, AMC provides feeds of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090116162653\/http:\/\/www.amctv.com\/originals\/the-prisoner-1960s-series\/\">all seventeen episodes<\/a>, to promote their somewhat blasphemous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1043714\/\">re-make<\/a> of the series.<\/p>\n<p>He was never a number; he was always a free man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who are you?&#8221; &#8220;The new Number Two.&#8221; &#8220;Who is Number One?&#8221; &#8220;You are Number Six.&#8221; Patrick McGoohan passed away yesterday at the age of 80. He will long be remembered as No. 6, the eponymous Prisoner kidnapped and deposited in the Village after retiring from his life as a spy. From the story concept to &#8230; <a title=\"Be Seeing You\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2009\/01\/15\/be-seeing-you\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Be Seeing You\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[56,109,110],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-bbc","tag-mcgoohan","tag-prisoner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-3V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}