{"id":197216,"date":"2026-03-17T13:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/working-class-hero-len-deighton-best-selling-spy-writer-dies-aged-97\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:49:21","slug":"working-class-hero-len-deighton-best-selling-spy-writer-dies-aged-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/working-class-hero-len-deighton-best-selling-spy-writer-dies-aged-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Working-class hero: Len Deighton, best-selling spy writer, dies aged 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Len Deighton, creator of Harry Palmer, one of the world&#8217;s most famous spy characters, has died aged 97. The British writer sold millions of books and was translated into 20 languages over a career spanning half a century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/03\/17\/working-class-hero-len-deighton-best-selling-spy-writer-dies-aged-97\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Len Deighton, creator of Harry Palmer, one of the world&#8217;s most famous spy characters, has died aged 97. The British writer sold millions of books and was translated into 20 languages over a career spanning half a century. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":197217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}