{"id":23098,"date":"2021-06-28T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23098"},"modified":"2021-06-28T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T16:55:42","slug":"obit-watch-june-28-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23098","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: June 28, 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/27\/arts\/music\/frederic-rzewski-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NYT<\/strong> obit for Frederic Rzewski<\/a>, which went up after I posted yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/john-langley-cops-dies-1234974479\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Langley<\/a>. He was perhaps best known as the creator of &#8220;COPS&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/john-langley-cops-dies-1234974479\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apart from Cops, Langley also produced American Vice: The Doping of a Nation, which showed live drug arrests on television. Other credits include Inside American Jail and Las Vegas Jailhouse; documentaries Cocaine Blues, American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?, Anatomy of a Crime and Terrorism: Target U.S.A.;and series\u2019 Video Justice, Undercover Stings, Jail, Street Patrol, Vegas Strip and Road Warriors.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also was involved in off-road racing, and apparently did quite well at that: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/28\/cops-creator-john-langley-dies-during-off-road-race-in-mexico\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In 2009 and 2010, Langley\u2019s team, COPS Racing, took first place in its class in the Baja 1000, an off-road motorsports event held annually in Baja California.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He died of an apparent heart attack while his team was competing in the &#8220;Coast to Coast Ensenada-San Felipe 250&#8221; this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I have not seen this elsewhere, but &#8220;Reason&#8221; is reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/06\/28\/america-is-back-to-bombing-syria\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the death of libertarian economist Steve Horwitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT obit for Frederic Rzewski, which went up after I posted yesterday. John Langley. He was perhaps best known as the creator of &#8220;COPS&#8221;. Apart from Cops, Langley also produced American Vice: The Doping of a Nation, which showed live drug arrests on television. Other credits include Inside American Jail and Las Vegas Jailhouse; documentaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,23,40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cops","category-law","category-music","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098","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=23098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23099,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23098\/revisions\/23099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}