{"id":15902,"date":"2017-05-01T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15902"},"modified":"2017-05-02T08:42:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:42:07","slug":"obit-watch-may-1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15902","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 1, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/30\/arts\/music\/obituary-dick-contino-accordion-heartthrob.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Contino<\/a>, noted accordion player and sometime actor.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1940&#8217;s, Mr. Contino was pulling down &#8220;up to $4,000 a week&#8221;. Then, in 1951, he got drafted into the Army. He didn&#8217;t take well to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/30\/arts\/music\/obituary-dick-contino-accordion-heartthrob.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;after reporting to Fort Ord, near Monterey, Calif., bolted before his induction, overwhelmed by persistent neuroses including claustrophobia.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He ended up serving 4 1\/2 months in federal prison and paying a $10,000 fine for &#8220;refusing to submit to induction&#8221;. He was later pardoned, but his career never completely recovered.<\/p>\n<p>He did go on to do a couple of B-movies, including &#8220;Daddy-O&#8221; (which some of you may remember as a <a href=\"http:\/\/mst3k.wikia.com\/wiki\/Daddy-O\" target=\"_blank\">Joel episode of MST3K)<\/a>. And even later on, he was the inspiration for James Ellroy&#8217;s &#8220;Dick Contino\u2019s Blues&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Contino, noted accordion player and sometime actor. In the late 1940&#8217;s, Mr. Contino was pulling down &#8220;up to $4,000 a week&#8221;. Then, in 1951, he got drafted into the Army. He didn&#8217;t take well to this: &#8230;after reporting to Fort Ord, near Monterey, Calif., bolted before his induction, overwhelmed by persistent neuroses including claustrophobia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902","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=15902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15906,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions\/15906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}