{"id":23849,"date":"2021-12-12T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T00:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23849"},"modified":"2021-12-12T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T00:29:28","slug":"obit-watch-december-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23849","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: December 12, 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/12\/books\/anne-rice-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Rice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody&#8217;s been on this like flies on a severed cow&#8217;s head in a Damien Hirst installation, but I wanted to note it for two reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1. The hysterical record.<\/p>\n<p>2. When I looked early this morning (probably around 7:30 AM) the <strong>NYT<\/strong> had what I thought was a very brief and superficial obit up, with no mention that a longer one would be coming. When I checked later in the afternoon, that one has been slightly expanded and the usual &#8220;a fuller obituary will be published soon&#8221; note was there. The current obit seems to be the end product (modulo any corrections that come in).<\/p>\n<p>Noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/12\/books\/anne-rice-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By her late teens, she had become disillusioned with the Catholic faith.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/12\/books\/anne-rice-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI have a great deal of anger against a church that would teach kids a 7-year-old could burn in hell for French kissing, right alongside a Nazi sadist,\u201d she told The Times in 1988. In the late 1990s, though, she would return to a belief in God after decades of atheism; over the next several years she wrote two novels inspired by the life of Jesus, as well as a memoir, \u201cCalled Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Journey\u201d (2008).<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Rice. Everybody&#8217;s been on this like flies on a severed cow&#8217;s head in a Damien Hirst installation, but I wanted to note it for two reasons: 1. The hysterical record. 2. When I looked early this morning (probably around 7:30 AM) the NYT had what I thought was a very brief and superficial obit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-obits","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849","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=23849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23850,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849\/revisions\/23850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}