{"id":4506,"date":"2011-05-25T09:23:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2011-05-25T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T16:08:09","slug":"obit-watch-may-25-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4506","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 25, 2011."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/25\/nyregion\/huguette-clark-recluse-heiress-dies-at-104.html?pagewanted=all\">Huguette Clark, &#8220;antisocial socialite&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recommend clicking through and reading the entire <strong>NYT<\/strong> obit. Ms. Clark was 104 when she died, and her story is one of the saddest things I&#8217;ve read recently.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Astor comparison, I&#8217;m reminded somewhat of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hetty_Green\">the Green family<\/a>, particularly Sylvia Green.<\/p>\n<p>On a totally unrelated note, I think I&#8217;m going to have to pre-order the Blu-Ray edition of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0050G3NWG\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stainles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B0050G3NWG\">Citizen Kane<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0050G3NWG&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hattip: I actually saw the obit skimming over the <strong>NYT <\/strong>site this morning, but thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/best-paragraph-in-obituary-of-104-year.html\">Althouse<\/a> for providing the link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huguette Clark, &#8220;antisocial socialite&#8221;. I recommend clicking through and reading the entire NYT obit. Ms. Clark was 104 when she died, and her story is one of the saddest things I&#8217;ve read recently. In addition to the Astor comparison, I&#8217;m reminded somewhat of the Green family, particularly Sylvia Green. On a totally unrelated note, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-movies","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","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=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}