{"id":164,"date":"2007-11-23T20:11:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T01:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2007-11-24T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T15:46:12","slug":"reg-park-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Reg Park, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Bodybuilding legend and some time actor Reg Park died yesterday in Johannesburg, South Africa, of skin cancer. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>MSTies will remember his performance as Hecules in episode 412 &#8211; HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMEN.<\/p>\n<p>Reg Park was born in Leeds, England, named after his father, a gymnasium proprietor and owner of the Reg Park Barbell Company. Reg took up bodybuilding in 1946. He finished Mr. Universe runner-up to future film rival Steve Reeves in 1950, then won the title outright in 1951, 1958 and 1965. After marrying South African-born Mareon Isaacs in 1952, the Parks moved permanently to South Africa where Reg ran a chain of fitness studios.<\/p>\n<p>California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger considered Park his friend and mentor. Schwarzenegger lived and trained with him in the late &#8217;60s. It was Reg who urged Arnold to try a movie career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.regpark.net\/\">Check out his web site.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-park24nov24,1,624467.story\">L.A. Times obit here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/regpark.jpg\" alt=\"Reg Park\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Bodybuilding legend and some time actor Reg Park died yesterday in Johannesburg, South Africa, of skin cancer. He was 79.<\/p>\n<p>MSTies will remember his performance as Hecules in episode 412 &#8211; HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMEN.<\/p>\n<p>Reg Park was born in Leeds, England, named after his father, a gymnasium proprietor and owner of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}