{"id":13236,"date":"2026-10-04T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=13236"},"modified":"2026-10-04T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:43:47","slug":"the-iconic-voice-behind-our-entire-childhood-has-officially-fallen-silent-at-85-see-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=13236","title":{"rendered":"The iconic voice behind our entire childhood has officially fallen silent at 85\u2026 See more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legendary Canadian voice actor whose commanding yet gentle baritone brought the iconic Autobot leader Optimus Prime to life for more than four decades,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>alongside beloved characters like Eeyore in *Winnie the Pooh*, has passed away at the age of 85: **Peter Cullen**.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11832\" style=\"width:140px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png 1024w, https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary Canadian voice actor whose commanding yet gentle baritone brought the iconic Autobot leader Optimus Prime to life for more than four decades, alongside beloved characters&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13237,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}