{"id":26458,"date":"2023-05-02T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26458"},"modified":"2023-05-02T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:36:15","slug":"obit-watch-may-2-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26458","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 2, 2023."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/4VHIA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Lightfoot<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/music-news\/gordon-lightfoot-dead-canadian-singer-songwriter-1235477521\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EGB07WvI2R\">pic.twitter.com\/EGB07WvI2R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pee Wee Herman Melville (@PeeMelville) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeeMelville\/status\/1569136728216043520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>I have poked my fair share of fun at the song, and will probably continue to do so. But there is something affecting about those lyrics. I think maybe it&#8217;s the idea of calm acceptance in the face of certain death.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tV9PoWQVga0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Lightfoot. THR. pic.twitter.com\/EGB07WvI2R &mdash; Pee Wee Herman Melville (@PeeMelville) September 12, 2022 I have poked my fair share of fun at the song, and will probably continue to do so. But there is something affecting about those lyrics. I think maybe it&#8217;s the idea of calm acceptance in the face of certain death.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458","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=26458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26461,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458\/revisions\/26461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}