{"id":14234,"date":"2014-08-14T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14234"},"modified":"2014-08-18T16:57:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T23:57:30","slug":"celebrity-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/08\/14\/celebrity-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"celebrity deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I overhear someone- in poor taste in my humble opinion &#8212; some mocking quotations of one celebrity on the impact of Robin Williams.\u00c2\u00a0 The undertone here is that the celebrity is insincere in his praise of personal relationships of Robin Williams&#8230; and it is worth noting, the celebrity being quoted in question is someone who was &#8220;big once&#8221; but has faded out of view.\u00c2\u00a0 The subtext is thus that he&#8217;s trying to get a quote into the news just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I overhear someone give a blithe statement of &#8220;who cares&#8221; about Robert Williams.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Takes Iraq off the news&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else expresses that she&#8217;s going to go watch Mrs Doubtfire again.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is good for her, I guess&#8230; the impact of his life&#8217;s work mattering to her.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I remain cynical, but more cynical about the cynics.<\/p>\n<p>Another death, harkening back to a different era&#8230; Lauran Bacall&#8230; who, all I can think about there is&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2014\/08\/13\/lauren-bacall-and-harry-trumans-piano-moment-led-to-bigger-things\">Truman<\/a>&#8230; slightly out of character for Truman, who got quite a hearing from his wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I overhear someone- in poor taste in my humble opinion &#8212; some mocking quotations of one celebrity on the impact of Robin Williams.\u00c2\u00a0 The undertone here is that the celebrity is insincere in his praise of personal relationships of Robin Williams&#8230; and it is worth noting, the celebrity being quoted in question is someone who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14238,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions\/14238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}