{"id":536,"date":"2009-10-20T07:38:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2009-10-20T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T19:28:44","slug":"obit-watch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/20\/nyregion\/20unruh.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=all\">Howard Unruh<\/a> finally died at the age of 88.<\/p>\n<p>Unruh is mostly forgotten today; on September 6, 1949, he went on a shooting spree and killed 13 people before he was finally taken down. Unruh never stood trial; he was found to be insane and spent the rest of his life in confinement.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Times <\/strong>obit does include a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.columbia.edu\/cs\/ContentServer\/jrn\/1175295299201\/page\/1175295298659\/simplepage.htm\">Meyer Burger&#8217;s story for the paper<\/a>; that story won Burger the Pulitizer Prize for local reporting, and is also reprinted in the Library of America <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1598530313?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stainles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1598530313\"><strong>True Crime<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=stainles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1598530313\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> collection.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahweinman.com\/confessions\/2009\/10\/on-howard-unruh.html\">Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind<\/a> has an excellent (and far more thoughtful) post up as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Unruh finally died at the age of 88. Unruh is mostly forgotten today; on September 6, 1949, he went on a shooting spree and killed 13 people before he was finally taken down. Unruh never stood trial; he was found to be insane and spent the rest of his life in confinement. The Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}