{"id":11892,"date":"2014-02-25T06:42:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T12:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2014-02-25T07:22:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:22:35","slug":"random-notes-february-25-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11892","title":{"rendered":"Random notes: February 25, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Ramis obits: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/25\/movies\/harold-ramis-who-helped-redefine-what-makes-us-laugh-on-screen-dies-at-69.html?ref=todayspaper\">NYT<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-harold-ramis-20140225,0,2065104,full.story\">LAT<\/a><\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-harold-ramis-201412\">A\/V Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/25\/nyregion\/owner-of-opulent-long-island-castle-is-shot-in-head-by-gunman.html?ref=todayspaper\">Gary Melius, a well-known Long Island developer and prominent political patron, was shot in the head by a masked gunman on Monday in the parking lot of his opulent Gold Coast estate in Suffolk County, the police said.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what? This is the &#8220;opulent Gold Cost estate&#8221;. You may recognize it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/25\/nyregion\/owner-of-opulent-long-island-castle-is-shot-in-head-by-gunman.html?ref=todayspaper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2014\/02\/25\/nyregion\/25shoot-02\/25shoot-02-superJumbo.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/25\/nyregion\/owner-of-opulent-long-island-castle-is-shot-in-head-by-gunman.html?ref=todayspaper\">He bought Oheka Castle in 1984. The house, completed in 1919, was built by the financier Otto Herman Kahn; its exteriors were featured prominently in the movie \u201cCitizen Kane.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/crime\/2014\/02\/24\/35055de4-9d74-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html?hpid=z1\"><br \/>\nMore on Samuel Sheinbein.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/article\/Former-Texas-kicker-Erxleben-sentenced-to-prison-5262884.php?cmpid=hpts\"><br \/>\nRussell Erxleben is going to prison for 90 months.<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=9163\">Previously.<\/a> The 90 months figure comes from the <strong>Statesman<\/strong> whose coverage is behind a paywall.) (Edited to add: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsradioklbj.com\/News\/story.aspx?ID=2135953\">story from KLBJ-AM<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Ramis obits: NYT. LAT. A\/V Club. Gary Melius, a well-known Long Island developer and prominent political patron, was shot in the head by a masked gunman on Monday in the parking lot of his opulent Gold Coast estate in Suffolk County, the police said. So what? This is the &#8220;opulent Gold Cost estate&#8221;. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-law","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892","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=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11894,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions\/11894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}