{"id":6736,"date":"2012-03-29T07:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T12:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2012-03-29T15:49:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T20:49:54","slug":"obit-watch-come-and-listen-to-my-story-about-a-man-named-earl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6736","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: come and listen to my story about a man named Earl&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/29\/arts\/music\/earl-scruggs-bluegrass-banjo-player-dies-at-88.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=all\">Earl Scruggs<\/a>, that is.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rrlqQ1_vZVE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rrlqQ1_vZVE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"274\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XgLSowrUQKU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"274\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XgLSowrUQKU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: By way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/7021002\/Article-written-back-in-January-by-Steve-Martin-about-Earl-Scruggs-Your-dog-wants-a-banjo\">FARK<\/a>, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/culture\/2012\/01\/steve-martin-earl-scruggs.html\">a nice tribute to Earl Scruggs from the <strong>New Yorker<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/rip-earl-scruggs,71642\/\">The Onion A\/V Club&#8217;s very nice obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Earl Scruggs, that is. Edited to add: By way of FARK, here&#8217;s a nice tribute to Earl Scruggs from the New Yorker. Edited to add 2: The Onion A\/V Club&#8217;s very nice obituary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-music","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","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=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}