{"id":14817,"date":"2016-07-29T06:56:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14817"},"modified":"2016-07-29T06:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:56:02","slug":"obit-watch-july-29-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14817","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: July 29, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/29\/business\/media\/jack-davis-illustrator-known-for-mad-magazine-dies-at-91.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Davis<\/a>, noted <strong>Mad<\/strong> magazine illustrator. There are some nice examples of his work in the <strong>NYT<\/strong> and also in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-jack-davis-illustrator-mad-magazine-and-tales--240284\" target=\"_blank\">A\/V Club&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/26\/books\/tim-lahaye-a-christian-fundamentalist-leader-dies-at-90.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=obituaries&#038;region=stream&#038;module=stream_unit&#038;version=latest&#038;contentPlacement=7&#038;pgtype=sectionfront&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Tim LaHaye<\/a>, co-author of the <strong>Left Behind<\/strong> series of books. I actually have a copy of the first book in the series, but have not yet read it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also never seen an episode of <strong>Babylon 5<\/strong>, but I keep hearing that it is above average for televised SF, and people who I do respect seem fond of it. So, for the historical record: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/rip-jerry-doyle-babylon-5s-michael-garibaldi-240299\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry &#8220;Michael Garibaldi&#8221; Doyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Davis, noted Mad magazine illustrator. There are some nice examples of his work in the NYT and also in the A\/V Club&#8217;s. Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind series of books. I actually have a copy of the first book in the series, but have not yet read it. I&#8217;ve also never seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817","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=14817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14818,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}