{"id":11674,"date":"2014-01-17T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11674"},"modified":"2014-01-17T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:40:09","slug":"obit-watch-january-17-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11674","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 17, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the record: Russell Johnson. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/17\/arts\/television\/russell-johnson-the-professor-on-gilligans-island-dies-at-89.html?ref=todayspaper\">NYT<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-russell-johnson-20140117,0,1478695.story\">LAT<\/a><\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-russell-johnson-the-professor-on-gilligans-isl-107020\">A\/V Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(You know, I may not be terribly observant. But it never clicked with me that he was in &#8220;This Island Earth&#8221;, which I have seen (in the MST3K version)).<\/p>\n<p>Dave Madden. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/17\/arts\/television\/dave-madden-of-the-partridge-family-dies-at-82.html?ref=todayspaper\">NYT<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-dave-madden-20140117,0,6244246.story\">LAT<\/a><\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-dave-madden-band-manager-of-the-partridge-fami-107021\">A\/V Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coffee_Talk\">&#8220;The Partridge Family were neither partridges, nor a family. Discuss.&#8221;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And, though I have never been a big fan of <strong>The Wizard of Oz<\/strong>, I do want to link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-ruth-robinson-duccini-the-last-surviving-femal-107024\">A\/V Club&#8217;s obit for Ruth Robinson Duccini<\/a>, the last surviving female Munchkin. Jerry Maren, according to reports, is the last surviving Munchkin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record: Russell Johnson. NYT. LAT. A\/V Club. (You know, I may not be terribly observant. But it never clicked with me that he was in &#8220;This Island Earth&#8221;, which I have seen (in the MST3K version)). Dave Madden. NYT. LAT. A\/V Club. (&#8220;The Partridge Family were neither partridges, nor a family. Discuss.&#8221;) And, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,14,31,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-clippings","category-movies","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674","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=11674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11675,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions\/11675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}