{"id":31547,"date":"2025-12-17T08:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=31547"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:56:33","slug":"obit-watch-december-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=31547","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: December 17, 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/gil-gerard-dead-buck-rogers-25th-century-1236452804\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gil Gerard<\/a>, actor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001266\/?ref_=fn_t_1\" target=\"_blank\">Other credits<\/a> include &#8220;Airport &#8217;77&#8221;, the good &#8220;Hawaii Five-0&#8221;, and &#8220;E.A.R.T.H. Force&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/nTfeK\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Samuelson<\/a>, long time economics columnist for &#8220;Newsweek&#8221; and the <strong>Washington Post<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2025\/12\/norman-podhoretz-rip.php\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Podhoretz<\/a>, conservative political writer.<\/p>\n<p>(Hattip on Mr. Gerard and Mr. Podhoretz to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: archived <strong>NYT<\/strong> obits for <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/rA9UR\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Gerard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/FHfu4\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Podhoretz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gil Gerard, actor. Other credits include &#8220;Airport &#8217;77&#8221;, the good &#8220;Hawaii Five-0&#8221;, and &#8220;E.A.R.T.H. Force&#8221;. Robert Samuelson, long time economics columnist for &#8220;Newsweek&#8221; and the Washington Post. Norman Podhoretz, conservative political writer. (Hattip on Mr. Gerard and Mr. Podhoretz to Lawrence.) Edited to add: archived NYT obits for Mr. Gerard and Mr. Podhoretz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,31,16,64,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-movies","category-obits","category-politics","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547","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=31547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31550,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547\/revisions\/31550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}