{"id":23205,"date":"2021-07-28T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T17:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23205"},"modified":"2021-07-28T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T17:22:39","slug":"obit-watch-july-28-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23205","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: July 28, 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/27\/nyregion\/jimmy-elidrissi-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Elidrissi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is another one of those <strong>NYT<\/strong> style obits for someone who wasn&#8217;t so famous, but was still a figure worth noting. Mr. Elidrissi emigrated from Morocco to the United States in 1966 and got a job as a bellhop at the Waldorf Astoria&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;where he worked until 2017.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/27\/nyregion\/jimmy-elidrissi-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On the day he retired after 51 years, he was its longest-serving employee and probably the longest-serving living bellhop in Manhattan, according to his union, the Hotel Trades Council.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/27\/nyregion\/jimmy-elidrissi-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He remembered encountering Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential campaign against Jimmy Carter.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/27\/nyregion\/jimmy-elidrissi-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c\u2018Here you go, Mr. President,\u2019\u201d he recalled saying in greeting the candidate, \u201cand he goes, \u2018No, no, don\u2019t call me that yet!\u2019 So I say, \u2018Look, Mr. President, you\u2019re going to win and when you win send me something for my son.\u2019 Later that year, he sent us a signed picture made out to my son.\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/27\/nyregion\/jimmy-elidrissi-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When Reagan returned to the hotel years after leaving office, he greeted Mr. Elidrissi by saying, \u201c\u2018You\u2019re still here, Jim!\u2019\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stretching the definition of an obit just a wee bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/27\/five-high-ranking-cuban-generals-dead-in-10-days\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Five high-ranking military leaders died in the span of just 10 days, according to the Cuban government \u2014 though it\u2019s remained mum on the causes.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spoiler: it looks like pretty much all of these guys were older than dirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Elidrissi. This is another one of those NYT style obits for someone who wasn&#8217;t so famous, but was still a figure worth noting. Mr. Elidrissi emigrated from Morocco to the United States in 1966 and got a job as a bellhop at the Waldorf Astoria&#8230; &#8230;where he worked until 2017. On the day he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,16,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-obits","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23205","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=23205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23206,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23205\/revisions\/23206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}