{"id":12145,"date":"2014-05-09T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T16:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12145"},"modified":"2014-05-09T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T16:31:57","slug":"and-speaking-of-obits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12145","title":{"rendered":"And speaking of obits&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sad that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/09\/world\/europe\/william-ash-an-escape-artist-who-fled-toward-danger-dies-at-96.html?smid=tw-nytimesobituary&#038;seid=auto\">William Ash<\/a>, a gentleman I was previously unfamiliar with, has died.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, 96 years is a pretty good run, and his <strong>NYT<\/strong> obit is quite entertaining.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/09\/world\/europe\/william-ash-an-escape-artist-who-fled-toward-danger-dies-at-96.html?smid=tw-nytimesobituary&#038;seid=auto\">Before the war ended, he had attempted 13 escapes and made it outside the barbed wire a half-dozen times. He went under, over and through fences. He walked out in disguise. He tunneled through a latrine. He was always recaptured.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect one reason he was always recaptured is that the Germans could hear him clanking as he walked from miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sad that William Ash, a gentleman I was previously unfamiliar with, has died. On the other hand, 96 years is a pretty good run, and his NYT obit is quite entertaining. Before the war ended, he had attempted 13 escapes and made it outside the barbed wire a half-dozen times. He went under, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,95,97,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-heroism","category-history","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12145","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=12145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12146,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12145\/revisions\/12146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}