{"id":18188,"date":"2019-01-07T09:52:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=18188"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:52:04","slug":"obit-watch-january-7-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=18188","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 7, 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/06\/obituaries\/brian-garfield-dies-at-79.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=obituaries&#038;region=rank&#038;module=package&#038;version=highlights&#038;contentPlacement=1&#038;pgtype=sectionfront\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Garfield<\/a>, noted author.<\/p>\n<p>He was probably best known for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2SM9oHX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Death Wish<\/a><\/strong> and the movies based on it, but he was prolific in both the mystery\/suspense and western genres. (He was also a past president of both the Western Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/06\/obituaries\/brian-garfield-dies-at-79.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=obituaries&#038;region=rank&#038;module=package&#038;version=highlights&#038;contentPlacement=1&#038;pgtype=sectionfront\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Garfield was rarely involved in the film adaptations of his books, deliberately extricating himself from a process he found distasteful even though it meant giving up control. (His 1975 novel \u201cHopscotch,\u201d which won an Edgar Award, was an exception: He adapted it into a comedy starring Walter Matthau in 1980.)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/06\/obituaries\/brian-garfield-dies-at-79.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=obituaries&#038;region=rank&#038;module=package&#038;version=highlights&#038;contentPlacement=1&#038;pgtype=sectionfront\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI\u2019m not really patient enough to put up with that, and I learned that the credit \u2018associate producer\u2019 means you\u2019re the only person who\u2019s willing to associate with the producer,\u201d he said in an interview with the website PopMatters in 2008.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2C1GGLG\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hopscotch&#8221;<\/a> is a swell movie: I haven&#8217;t seen it yet, but it is on our list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Garfield, noted author. He was probably best known for Death Wish and the movies based on it, but he was prolific in both the mystery\/suspense and western genres. (He was also a past president of both the Western Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America.) Mr. Garfield was rarely involved in the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188","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=18188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18189,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions\/18189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}