{"id":4561,"date":"2011-05-30T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2011-05-30T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T21:14:08","slug":"obit-watch-may-30-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=4561","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 30, 2011."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/texas-politics\/clements-was-texas-first-gop-governor-since-reconstruction-1506724.html?viewAsSinglePage=true\">Former Texas governor William P. Clements, Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I always thought Clements was an interesting character. He was the first Republican governor elected since Reconstruction; as a matter of fact, his campaign was the first (and only) political campaign I recall any of my family members volunteering for.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I wasn&#8217;t aware until many years later that Clements was involved up to his ears in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_Methodist_University_football_scandal\">SMU scandal<\/a>. (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0026271915\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stainles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0026271915\">A Payroll to Meet<\/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=0026271915&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/strong> is the definitive book on the scandal and Clements&#8217; involvement, but don&#8217;t pay $245 for it.) On the gripping hand, I&#8217;m not sure Clements and SMU did anything that UT and A&amp;M were not also doing at the time; SMU was just unlucky to get caught, and unlucky enough to be the test case for the &#8220;death penalty&#8221;. (Notice how the NCAA hasn&#8217;t used the &#8220;death penalty&#8221; since then?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Texas governor William P. Clements, Jr. I always thought Clements was an interesting character. He was the first Republican governor elected since Reconstruction; as a matter of fact, his campaign was the first (and only) political campaign I recall any of my family members volunteering for. On the other hand, I wasn&#8217;t aware until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,64,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-obits","category-politics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","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=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4563,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/4563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}