{"id":18234,"date":"2019-01-23T09:15:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=18234"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T15:15:03","slug":"obit-watch-january-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=18234","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 23, 2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/22\/business\/media\/russell-baker-dead-pulitzer.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Baker<\/a>, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the <strong>NYT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/22\/obituaries\/kaye-ballard-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaye Ballard<\/a>, noted actress.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for giving these short shrift, but Ms. Ballard was before my time.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to call out this one, not out of any malice or ill will, but because when you read the details in the obit, it&#8217;s kind of disturbing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/21\/obituaries\/brandon-truaxe-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Truaxe<\/a>, &#8220;the founder of the disruptive Canadian cosmetics company Deciem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you need help, please don&#8217;t be ashamed to ask for it. Anyone who would shame you for needing help&#8230;well, their opinions don&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Baker, Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the NYT. Kaye Ballard, noted actress. I apologize for giving these short shrift, but Ms. Ballard was before my time. I also want to call out this one, not out of any malice or ill will, but because when you read the details in the obit, it&#8217;s kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,49,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-planes","category-theatre","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234","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=18234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18235,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234\/revisions\/18235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}