{"id":7598,"date":"2015-06-09T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T22:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=7598"},"modified":"2015-06-09T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T22:41:02","slug":"rip-gilbert-lewis-aka-the-first-season-king-of-cartoons-on-pee-wees-playhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2015\/06\/09\/rip-gilbert-lewis-aka-the-first-season-king-of-cartoons-on-pee-wees-playhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Gilbert Lewis, aka the first season King of Cartoons on Pee-wee&#8217;s Playhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m sad to report that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0507227\/\">Gilbert Lewis<\/a> passed away recently. Gilbert is the actor who played the King of Cartoons in the first season of <em>Pee-wee&#8217;s Playhouse<\/em>, back in 1986 when it was filmed in New York City. His part was recast because of expense when we moved the production to California. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He was a terrific actor and wonderful man \u2013 \u2013 very nice and very serious about acting. I liked him very much. Sending my love to his family and friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilbert_Lewis_%28actor%29\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7600\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/KingOfCartoons.jpg\" alt=\"King of Cartoons Gilbert Lewis\" \/><\/a>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/PYB9QNxIG-U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sad to report that Gilbert Lewis passed away recently. Gilbert is the actor who played the King of Cartoons in the first season of Pee-wee&#8217;s Playhouse, back in 1986 when it was filmed in New York City. His part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7736,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions\/7736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}