{"id":10172,"date":"2013-06-14T18:36:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T23:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2013-06-14T18:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T23:36:44","slug":"obit-watch-june-14-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10172","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: June 14, 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By way of <a href=\"http:\/\/therapsheet.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/farewell-joan-parker.html\">The Rap Sheet<\/a>, I have just learned of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2013\/06\/13\/philanthropist-joan-parker-has-died\/PBPmxHdkNrO2Ln1uoC95ZN\/story.html\">the passing of Joan Parker<\/a>, &#8220;tireless fundraiser for a host of different charities&#8221; and wife of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=933\">the late great mystery writer Robert B. Parker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I want to believe the two of them are sitting at heaven&#8217;s bar: Mrs. Parker taking small, careful sips of her drink, and Mr. Parker drinking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrillingdetective.com\/trivia\/spenser_beers.html\">Amstel<\/a>. (If you can&#8217;t get Amstel in heaven, where can you get it? I mean, other than the Netherlands?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of The Rap Sheet, I have just learned of the passing of Joan Parker, &#8220;tireless fundraiser for a host of different charities&#8221; and wife of the late great mystery writer Robert B. Parker. I want to believe the two of them are sitting at heaven&#8217;s bar: Mrs. Parker taking small, careful sips of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}