{"id":35276,"date":"2010-02-17T20:21:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T01:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=35276"},"modified":"2010-02-17T20:21:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T01:21:05","slug":"mckellen-drawn-to-corrie-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/02\/17\/35276-mckellen-drawn-to-corrie-return\/","title":{"rendered":"McKellen &#8216;drawn&#8217; to Corrie return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mckellen_ian.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mckellen_ian-125x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ian McKellen\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-34202 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>Sir Ian McKellen likes the idea of returning to Coronation Street &#8211; this time as a permanent character. The Lord Of The Rings star played novelist Mel Hutchwright in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Daily Mirror: &#8220;There&#8217;s a part of me which is strongly drawn to the idea of returning and making it a job that simply goes on and on.&#8221; He added: &#8220;I know it wouldn&#8217;t be a universally popular decision &#8211; there is still a bit of snobbery about appearing in a soap. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/21\/20100217\/ten-mckellen-drawn-to-corrie-return-5a7c575.html\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Ian McKellen likes the idea of returning to Coronation Street &#8211; this time as a permanent character&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,87],"tags":[1110],"class_list":["post-35276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-events-television","tag-coronation-street"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9aY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}