{"id":25041,"date":"2022-08-15T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T16:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25041"},"modified":"2022-08-15T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T16:50:35","slug":"obit-watch-august-15-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25041","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: August 15, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Heche<\/a>, for the record. THR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On an administrative note, this has been an unusual situation that I didn’t know how to handle. Various outlets were reporting her death, in the sense that she had been declared brain-dead, which qualifies as legal death under California law. However, those outlets were reporting that she was still on life support while the hospital looked for a compatible recipient for her organs. I made the administrative decision that I would not run an obit watch for her until the NYT<\/strong> ran an obit. Unfortunately, the NYT<\/strong> sometimes takes a day or three or more to run obits: in this case, they didn’t take that long.<\/p>\n

I’m still not sure I made the right call in this case. Between Ms. Heche and Tony Dow, it’s been kind of a weird time for the obit watch.<\/p>\n

Robyn Griggs<\/a>, actress. She was a regular on “Another World” and “One Life To Live”, but really didn’t have a lot of credits other than those<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Denise Dowse<\/a>. Other credits<\/a> include “Seinfeld”, “Starship Troopers”, the 2003 “Dragnet” series, and “A Stone Cold Christmas”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anne Heche, for the record. THR. On an administrative note, this has been an unusual situation that I didn’t know how to handle. Various outlets were reporting her death, in the sense that she had been declared brain-dead, which qualifies as legal death under California law. However, those outlets were reporting that she was still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,31,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-movies","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041","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=25041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25042,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041\/revisions\/25042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}