{"id":32082,"date":"2026-05-20T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=32082"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:51:43","slug":"obit-watch-may-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=32082","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 20, 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/20\/us\/politics\/barney-frank-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j1A.RM4Z.pd46yQdAFhK3&#038;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\">Barney Frank<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zdc2a\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>WP<\/strong> (archived)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/20\/lifestyle\/las-vegas-iconic-burger-joint-heart-attack-grill-closes-blames-rising-costs-for-citys-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/20\/lifestyle\/las-vegas-iconic-burger-joint-heart-attack-grill-closes-blames-rising-costs-for-citys-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\">The restaurant blamed major casinos and \u201ccorporate greed\u201d for pricing average Americans out of the \u201cquintessential American experience of affordable indulgence\u201d in Las Vegas, it said.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/20\/lifestyle\/las-vegas-iconic-burger-joint-heart-attack-grill-closes-blames-rising-costs-for-citys-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOur core value, \u2018Eat big and laugh loud,\u2019 no longer fits a city peddling $40 \u2018artisanal avocado toast,&#8217;\u201d the restaurant said.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/20\/lifestyle\/las-vegas-iconic-burger-joint-heart-attack-grill-closes-blames-rising-costs-for-citys-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe honest, heavy-duty calories that built our reputation are now considered gauche by a city that has excluded the middle class and lost its swagger in the process.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence<\/a> sent over a report from Fox Las Vegas:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sIOhaX61JYk?si=Zm6pqcTDRINZHZtm\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barney Frank. WP (archived). The Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas. The restaurant blamed major casinos and \u201ccorporate greed\u201d for pricing average Americans out of the \u201cquintessential American experience of affordable indulgence\u201d in Las Vegas, it said. \u201cOur core value, \u2018Eat big and laugh loud,\u2019 no longer fits a city peddling $40 \u2018artisanal avocado toast,&#8217;\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-obits","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32082","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=32082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32085,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32082\/revisions\/32085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}