{"id":15815,"date":"2017-04-13T09:27:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15815"},"modified":"2017-04-13T10:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:53:23","slug":"obit-watch-april-13-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15815","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: April 13, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/11\/arts\/music\/j-geils-whose-bands-catchy-pop-hits-colored-the-1980s-dies-at-71.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">J. Geils<\/a>, of J. Geils Band fame. Remember &#8220;Centerfold&#8221;? I used to have that on a 45 somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>(Kids, ask your parents about records.)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BqDjMZKf-wg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My brother mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/12\/arts\/television\/charlie-murphy-chappelles-show-star-and-eddies-brother-dies-at-57.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Murphy<\/a>&#8216;s death yesterday, and I&#8217;m embarrassed to admit: it rang no bells with me until I read the obit and realized, &#8220;Oh, yeah, the &#8216;True Hollywood Stories&#8217; guy from &#8216;Chappelle&#8217;s Show&#8217;.&#8221; (I didn&#8217;t watch the show first run, but Lawrence has some DVDs that we&#8217;ve been watching from time to time.)<\/p>\n<p>And I think this is worth noting for news value:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/12\/nyregion\/judge-dead-hudson-river-sheila-abdus-salaam.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Abdus-Salaam, an associate judge on New York State\u2019s highest court and the first African-American woman to serve on that bench, was found dead on Wednesday in the Hudson River, the authorities said.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to speculate, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like the authorities suspect foul play at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. Geils, of J. Geils Band fame. Remember &#8220;Centerfold&#8221;? I used to have that on a 45 somewhere. (Kids, ask your parents about records.) My brother mentioned Charlie Murphy&#8216;s death yesterday, and I&#8217;m embarrassed to admit: it rang no bells with me until I read the obit and realized, &#8220;Oh, yeah, the &#8216;True Hollywood Stories&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,40,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-music","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815","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=15815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15817,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815\/revisions\/15817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}