{"id":17441,"date":"2018-05-31T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17441"},"modified":"2018-05-31T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:55:51","slug":"obit-watch-may-31-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17441","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 31, 2018."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/30\/obituaries\/josh-greenfeld-who-chronicled-his-sons-autism-dies-at-90.html?smid=tw-nytobits&#038;smtyp=cur\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Greenfeld<\/a>, writer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Greenfeld shared an Oscar nomination with Paul Mazursky for the screenplay of &#8220;Harry and Tonto&#8221;. (They lost to &#8220;Chinatown&#8221;. Man, 1974 was a heck of a year.) He also wrote plays, reviews, and features.<\/p>\n<p>But he was most famous for three books about his severely autistic son: <strong>A Child Called Noah<\/strong>, <strong>A Place for Noah<\/strong>, and <strong>A Client Called Noah<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/30\/obituaries\/josh-greenfeld-who-chronicled-his-sons-autism-dies-at-90.html?smid=tw-nytobits&#038;smtyp=cur\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Greenfeld, who continued telling Noah\u2019s story in his own book, \u201cBoy Alone: A Brother\u2019s Memoir\u201d (2009), said his brother, now 51, is in an assisted living home in Lawndale, Calif. \u201cMy parents went to see him every weekend until my father\u2019s condition deteriorated over the last three years,\u201d he said.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/obituaries\/gardner-dozois-70-acclaimed-science-fiction-editor-20180529.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philly.com obit for Gardner Dozois<\/a>. The paper of record has not seen fit to publish an obit yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Greenfeld, writer. Mr. Greenfeld shared an Oscar nomination with Paul Mazursky for the screenplay of &#8220;Harry and Tonto&#8221;. (They lost to &#8220;Chinatown&#8221;. Man, 1974 was a heck of a year.) He also wrote plays, reviews, and features. But he was most famous for three books about his severely autistic son: A Child Called Noah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31,16,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-obits","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441","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=17441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17443,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions\/17443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}