{"id":22952,"date":"2021-05-27T09:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22952"},"modified":"2021-05-28T07:43:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T12:43:21","slug":"obit-watch-may-27-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22952","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 27, 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Carle<\/a>, children’s book author. He was perhaps most famous for \u201cThe Very Hungry Caterpillar\u201d.<\/p>\n

Noted:<\/p>\n

But, as Mr. Carle told The New York Times in 2007, disaster struck when his father was drafted into the German army and soon became a prisoner of war in Russia. Eric, who was then 15, managed to avoid the draft but was conscripted by the Nazi government to dig trenches on the Siegfried line, a 400-mile defensive line in western Germany.<\/a>
\n\u201cIn Stuttgart, our hometown, our house was the only one standing,\u201d Mr. Carle told The Guardian in 2009. \u201cWhen I say standing, I mean the roof and windows are gone, and the doors. And \u2026 well, there you are.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kevin Clark<\/a>. He was the drummer in “School of Rock”. According to reports, he was hit and killed while riding his bicycle home.<\/p>\n

Samuel Wright<\/a>. He voiced “Sebastian” in “The Little Mermaid”, and also did a lot of Broadway work. He also played “Mufasa” in the original cast of “The Lion King” on Broadway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Carle, children’s book author. He was perhaps most famous for \u201cThe Very Hungry Caterpillar\u201d. Noted: But, as Mr. Carle told The New York Times in 2007, disaster struck when his father was drafted into the German army and soon became a prisoner of war in Russia. Eric, who was then 15, managed to avoid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31,40,99,16,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-music","category-nazis","category-obits","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952","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=22952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22953,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions\/22953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}