{"id":7328,"date":"2012-07-09T07:30:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2012-07-09T07:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T12:42:35","slug":"obit-watch-july-9-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=7328","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: July 9, 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am becoming convinced that if you&#8217;re going to read only one obit for a prominent cultural figure, the obit to read is the Onion A\/V Club&#8217;s. It seems to me that the writers for that site, especially Sean O&#8217;Neal, consistently manage to do a great job on tight deadlines summarizing why someone who just died was important, and do so with no snark or cruelty. In addition, the A\/V Club doesn&#8217;t require logins or subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Ernest Borgnine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/rip-ernest-borgnine,82203\/\">A\/V Club<\/a>. (I&#8217;m happy to see that so many of the obits mention his key role in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000BT96CS\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stainles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000BT96CS\">The Wild Bunch<\/a><\/strong><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=B000BT96CS\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-ernest-borgnine-20120709,0,4756730,full.story\"><strong>LAT<\/strong><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/09\/movies\/ernest-borgnine-tough-but-tender-actor-is-dead-at-95.html?_r=1&amp;hp\"><strong>NYT<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: And, oddly enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2012\/07\/08\/ernest-borgnine-i-thought-you-were-dead\/\">a nice tribute from Patrick at Popehat<\/a>, guest blogging at Balko&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am becoming convinced that if you&#8217;re going to read only one obit for a prominent cultural figure, the obit to read is the Onion A\/V Club&#8217;s. It seems to me that the writers for that site, especially Sean O&#8217;Neal, consistently manage to do a great job on tight deadlines summarizing why someone who just [&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-7328","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\/7328","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=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7330,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions\/7330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}