{"id":1307,"date":"2015-07-11T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/07\/goodbye-omar.html"},"modified":"2015-07-11T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:17:00","slug":"goodbye-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/07\/goodbye-omar.html","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-nJedl5iQpR4\/VaFBSNrEsAI\/AAAAAAAAGXE\/RR9Hj2mGPc4\/s1600\/rs_560x415-150526155502-1024-omar-sharif-lawrence-arabia.ls.52615.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-nJedl5iQpR4\/VaFBSNrEsAI\/AAAAAAAAGXE\/RR9Hj2mGPc4\/s320\/rs_560x415-150526155502-1024-omar-sharif-lawrence-arabia.ls.52615.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday the news broke that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-33483877\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Omar Sharif died<\/a>. \u00a0It is said that Peter O\u2019Toole once quipped that Omar Sharif is simply too cool a name for anyone to have. \u00a0He was right. \u00a0Yet the name fit the actor. \u00a0Sharif exploded onto the world stage in David Lean\u2019s epic <i>Lawrence of Arabia<\/i>. \u00a0He played Sharif Ali, perhaps the most complex and interesting character in the entire movie. \u00a0And he did it, as the youngsters would say, with swag. \u00a0He starred in another Lean masterpiece, the somewhat difficult to pinpoint <i>Doctor Zhivago<\/i>. \u00a0He would appear over the decades in a variety of roles. \u00a0 But for most, he will forever be the good doctor and the wonderfully awesome Sharif Ali. \u00a0May God grant him peace and eternal rest, and to those who loved him and the many who will miss him.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the news broke that Omar Sharif died. \u00a0It is said that Peter O\u2019Toole once quipped that Omar Sharif is simply too cool a name for anyone to have. \u00a0He was right. \u00a0Yet the name fit the actor. \u00a0Sharif exploded onto the world stage in David Lean\u2019s epic Lawrence of Arabia. \u00a0He played Sharif Ali, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Goodbye Omar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yesterday the news broke that Omar Sharif died. &nbsp;It is said that Peter O&#039;Toole once quipped that Omar Sharif is simply too cool a name for anyone to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/07\/goodbye-omar.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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