{"id":461,"date":"2005-06-27T17:20:47","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T22:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=461"},"modified":"2005-06-27T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T22:20:47","slug":"on-john-fielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"On John Fiedler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/06\/27\/obit.fiedler.ap\/\">John Fiedler, the voice of Piglet in Disney&#8217;s <i>Winnie-the-Pooh<\/i> films, died over the weekend at the age of 80.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWith Newhart, on &#8220;The Bob Newhart Show,&#8221; he was Mr. Peterson, the meek patient who was often a target for Jack Riley&#8217;s sarcastic Mr. Carlin.<\/p>\n<p>Fiedler also appeared in the films &#8220;12 Angry Men,&#8221; &#8220;The Odd Couple,&#8221; &#8220;True Grit,&#8221; &#8220;The Fortune&#8221; and &#8220;Sharky&#8217;s Machine,&#8221; and was a cast member on the TV show &#8220;Buffalo Bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he was best known for the squeaky voice of the ever-worrying Piglet that he landed when someone noticed his naturally high-pitched voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Walt Disney heard it on a program and said, &#8216;That&#8217;s Piglet,&#8217; &#8221; his brother James Fiedler told The Times.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, bother, said Pooh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Fiedler, the voice of Piglet in Disney&#8217;s Winnie-the-Pooh films, died over the weekend at the age of 80. With Newhart, on &#8220;The Bob Newhart Show,&#8221; he was Mr. Peterson, the meek patient who was often a target for Jack Riley&#8217;s sarcastic Mr. Carlin. Fiedler also appeared in the films &#8220;12 Angry Men,&#8221; &#8220;The Odd<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=461\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On John Fiedler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[976,193,217],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-john-fiedler","tag-obituary","tag-winnie-the-pooh","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}