{"id":26505,"date":"2023-05-11T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26505"},"modified":"2023-05-12T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T15:31:06","slug":"obit-watch-may-11-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=26505","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 11, 2023."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/kSiXh\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Gross<\/a>, &#8220;New Yorker&#8221; and &#8220;National Lampoon&#8221; cartoonist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/kSiXh\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">And while there are lines of taste that many cartoonists will not cross, Mr. Gross leaped over them, doused them with gasoline and lit them on fire, cackling as he did.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/kSiXh\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A stiff-legged dog lies on its back next to a blind man holding a sign that says, \u201cI am blind, and my dog is dead.\u201d A gigantic beanstalk grows out of a medieval peasant\u2019s posterior, and another peasant says, \u201cI told you they were magic beans and not to eat them.\u201d Diners sit in front of a sign advertising frogs\u2019 legs in a restaurant as a despondent legless amphibian rolls out of the kitchen. Some of his cartoons can\u2019t be fully described in a family newspaper.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/jacklyn-zeman-general-hospital-dead-at-70-1235485056\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacklyn Zeman<\/a>, actress. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0954719\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Other credits<\/a> include &#8220;Sledge Hammer!&#8221;, &#8220;Young Doctors In Love&#8221;, and &#8220;The New Mike Hammer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/lisa-montell-dead-world-without-end-1235484771\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Montell<\/a>, actress. She did a lot of TV westerns, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0599306\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her credits<\/a> end in 1962. According to her IMDB biography, she went on to become &#8220;a spiritual exponent of the Bah\u00e1&#8217;\u00ed faith&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Gross, &#8220;New Yorker&#8221; and &#8220;National Lampoon&#8221; cartoonist. And while there are lines of taste that many cartoonists will not cross, Mr. Gross leaped over them, doused them with gasoline and lit them on fire, cackling as he did. A stiff-legged dog lies on its back next to a blind man holding a sign that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-obits","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26505","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=26505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26507,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26505\/revisions\/26507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}