{"id":11876,"date":"2014-02-21T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T19:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11876"},"modified":"2014-02-21T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T19:35:31","slug":"obit-watch-february-21-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11876","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: February 21, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBC news correspondent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/22\/business\/garrick-utley-former-nbc-anchor-and-foreign-correspondent-dies-at-74.html?hp\">Garrick Utley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/22\/business\/garrick-utley-former-nbc-anchor-and-foreign-correspondent-dies-at-74.html?hp\">Fluent in Russian, German and French, he reported from some 75 countries in a multifaceted career that included 30 years at NBC. He was a bureau chief in London and Paris for the network, chief foreign correspondent, weekend news anchor and substitute for John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw on \u201cNBC Nightly News.\u201d He also hosted magazine programs and moderated the Sunday morning program \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d He later worked for ABC News and CNN.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBC news correspondent Garrick Utley. Fluent in Russian, German and French, he reported from some 75 countries in a multifaceted career that included 30 years at NBC. He was a bureau chief in London and Paris for the network, chief foreign correspondent, weekend news anchor and substitute for John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-media","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876","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=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11877,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions\/11877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}