{"id":14437,"date":"2016-03-25T06:43:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T11:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14437"},"modified":"2016-03-25T06:43:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T11:43:35","slug":"obit-watch-march-25-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14437","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: March 25, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Shandling. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/25\/arts\/television\/garry-shandling-dies.html?smid=tw-nytobits&#038;smtyp=cur\" target=\"_blank\">NYT<\/a><\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-garry-shandling-234307\" target=\"_blank\">A\/V Club<\/a>.<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/tv\/showtracker\/la-et-st-garry-shandling-died-66-20160324-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">LAT<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-earl-hamner-jr-dies-20160324-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Earl Hamner Jr.<\/a> I knew he was responsible for &#8220;The Waltons&#8221;, but I wasn&#8217;t aware that he also did &#8220;Falcon Crest&#8221;, and I don&#8217;t think I knew he&#8217;d written &#8220;Twilight Zone&#8221; episodes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-earl-hamner-jr-dies-20160324-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">He also wrote the 1968 TV adaptation of \u201cHeidi,\u201d which infuriated football fans when NBC began airing the children\u2019s classic by cutting off the final one minute and 15 seconds of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game in which the Raiders scored two touchdowns in the final 75 seconds.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you think I was going to pass up a chance to work in a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heidi_Game\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi Bowl<\/a> reference?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Shandling. NYT. A\/V Club.LAT. Earl Hamner Jr. I knew he was responsible for &#8220;The Waltons&#8221;, but I wasn&#8217;t aware that he also did &#8220;Falcon Crest&#8221;, and I don&#8217;t think I knew he&#8217;d written &#8220;Twilight Zone&#8221; episodes. He also wrote the 1968 TV adaptation of \u201cHeidi,\u201d which infuriated football fans when NBC began airing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,4,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-books","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437","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=14437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14438,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions\/14438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}