{"id":849930,"date":"2026-08-10T05:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849930\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T05:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:54:16","slug":"john-michael-howson-celebrates-90th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849930\/","title":{"rendered":"John Michael Howson celebrates 90th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFriends gathered for a milestone birthday for a veteran entertainer and writer.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Veteran entertainer John Michael \u201cHollywood\u201d Howson celebrated his 90th birthday on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Columnist Craig Bennett, joined here by Annette Allison, posted on Facebook, \u201cWe chortled relentlessly about our years in Hollywood \u2026living down the hall from each other, and decades of hijinks and shenanigans. Memory sharp as a tack, reminding me of wild and wonderful stories I\u2019d long forgotten!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howson\u2019s eclectic -and sometimes controversial- career as writer, producer, performer and broadcaster spans more than 60 years, notably featuring on The Magic Circle Club, Adventure Island and The Mike Walsh Show.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats JMH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friends gathered for a milestone birthday for a veteran entertainer and writer. Veteran entertainer John Michael \u201cHollywood\u201d Howson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-849930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}