{"id":23093,"date":"2021-06-27T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T18:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23093"},"modified":"2021-06-27T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T18:36:51","slug":"obit-watch-june-27-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23093","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: June 27, 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/27\/us\/politics\/mike-gravel-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Gravel<\/a>, former Senator from Alaska and (later) presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ethaniverson.com\/north-american-ballads-and-squares-frederic-rzewski\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frederic Rzewski<\/a>, noted pianist. I probably would not have made note of this, but Mike the Musicologist sent me this tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will write an obit tonight, but for now, the greatest gig poster in history: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aeyi0HvCrZ\">pic.twitter.com\/aeyi0HvCrZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ethan Iverson (@ethan_iverson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethan_iverson\/status\/1408802504922566658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ethaniverson.com\/north-american-ballads-and-squares-frederic-rzewski\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Iverson&#8217;s tribute<\/a>. MtM notes: &#8220;And while &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_People_United_Will_Never_Be_Defeated!\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The People United Will Never Be Defeated<\/a>&#8216; is grotesque source material, the piece is stunning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gravel, former Senator from Alaska and (later) presidential candidate. Frederic Rzewski, noted pianist. I probably would not have made note of this, but Mike the Musicologist sent me this tweet: I will write an obit tonight, but for now, the greatest gig poster in history: pic.twitter.com\/aeyi0HvCrZ &mdash; Ethan Iverson (@ethan_iverson) June 26, 2021 Ethan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,16,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-obits","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093","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=23093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23094,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23093\/revisions\/23094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}