{"id":11103,"date":"2013-10-25T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11103"},"modified":"2013-10-25T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:15:29","slug":"obit-watch-october-25-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11103","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: October 25, 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I nearly missed this one. The only coverage I&#8217;ve seen has been on the A\/V Club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/rip-william-harrison-author-of-roller-ball-murder,104651\/\">William Harrison, novelist and screenwriter, died on Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was unfamiliar with much of Harrison&#8217;s work. Apparently, he wrote a lot of novels set in Africa. But perhaps his biggest claim to fame is a short story, &#8220;Roller Ball Murder&#8221;, which was published in <strong>Esquire<\/strong> in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Norman Jewison hired Harrison to do a screenplay based on the story. The result:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CtkvGfJbmQA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CtkvGfJbmQA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I nearly missed this one. The only coverage I&#8217;ve seen has been on the A\/V Club. William Harrison, novelist and screenwriter, died on Tuesday. I was unfamiliar with much of Harrison&#8217;s work. Apparently, he wrote a lot of novels set in Africa. But perhaps his biggest claim to fame is a short story, &#8220;Roller Ball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-clippings","category-movies","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103","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=11103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11104,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11103\/revisions\/11104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}