{"id":2014492,"date":"2025-09-11T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2014492"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:05:12","slug":"death-by-lightning-star-michael-shannon-on-embodying-president-james-garfield-for-netflixs-limited-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/death-by-lightning-star-michael-shannon-on-embodying-president-james-garfield-for-netflixs-limited-series\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Death by Lightning\u2019 Star Michael Shannon on Embodying President James Garfield for Netflix\u2019s Limited Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI wish there were more people like James Garfield<\/a> nowadays,\u201d says Michael Shannon<\/a>, who plays the corruption-fighting 20th United States president in this moving four-part limited series, Death by Lightning<\/a>. \u201cThe more I learned about him, the more I fell in love with him.\u201d Based on Candice Millard<\/a>\u2019s 2011 bestseller Destiny of the Republic, the show follows the parallel paths of the chief executive and his deranged assassin, Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen<\/a>), who shot Garfield<\/a> in 1881, four months into his term. The series begins with Representative Garfield of Ohio, a preacher, lawyer, and Civil War hero living on a farm with his children and smart wife, Lucretia<\/a>, nicknamed Crete (Betty Gilpin<\/a>…<\/div>\n

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\u201cI wish there were more people like James Garfield nowadays,\u201d says Michael Shannon, who plays the corruption-fighting 20th United States president in this moving four-part limited series, Death by Lightning. \u201cThe more I learned about him, the more I fell in love with him.\u201d Based on Candice Millard\u2019s 2011 bestseller Destiny of the Republic, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2014493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2014492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Death-by-Lightning-Star-Michael-Shannon-on-Embodying-President-James.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}