{"id":17312,"date":"2018-05-02T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17312"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:51:11","slug":"obit-watch-may-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17312","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 2, 2018."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missed this one until it showed up on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYTObits\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the <strong>NYT<\/strong> obits Twitter<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/30\/obituaries\/michael-anderson-director-of-hit-and-cult-films-dies-at-98.html?smid=tw-nytobits&#038;smtyp=cur\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">noted film director Michael Anderson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among his credits: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rfvsP5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan&#8217;s Run<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2I7hQz7\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Around the World in 80 Days<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rfIZpT\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Dam Busters<\/a>&#8220;, and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Ibo7Km\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Quiller Memorandum<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve talked about watching &#8220;The Dam Busters&#8221;, but it won&#8217;t be this weekend even if we had the DVD, and that DVD is a touch pricey. I wouldn&#8217;t mind watching &#8220;Quiller&#8221; either, and I&#8217;ve never actually seen &#8220;Logan&#8217;s Run&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missed this one until it showed up on the NYT obits Twitter: noted film director Michael Anderson. Among his credits: &#8220;Logan&#8217;s Run&#8220;, &#8220;Around the World in 80 Days&#8220;, &#8220;The Dam Busters&#8220;, and &#8220;The Quiller Memorandum&#8220;. We&#8217;ve talked about watching &#8220;The Dam Busters&#8221;, but it won&#8217;t be this weekend even if we had the DVD, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17312","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=17312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17313,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17312\/revisions\/17313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}