{"id":7521,"date":"2012-07-17T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2012-07-17T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T12:24:13","slug":"obit-watch-july-17-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=7521","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: July 17, 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of these have been noted on FARK or elsewhere, but I want to round them up here for completeness:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/17\/business\/stephen-r-covey-herald-of-good-habits-dies-at-79.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper\">Stephen R. Covey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/17\/arts\/music\/kitty-wells-country-singer-dies-at-92.html?ref=todayspaper\">Kitty Wells, noted country singer.<\/a> (&#8220;It Wasn\u2019t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels&#8221;) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/rip-kitty-wells-the-queen-of-country-music,82536\/\">A\/V Club<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/17\/arts\/music\/jon-lord-keyboardist-with-deep-purple-dies-at-71.html?ref=todayspaper\">John Lord, keyboard player for Deep Purple.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also wanted to say a few words about Donald J. Sobol. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/17\/books\/donald-j-sobol-creator-of-encyclopedia-brown-dies-at-87.html?ref=todayspaper\"><strong>NYT<\/strong><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/donald-j-sobol-dies-author-wrote-popular-encylopedia-brown-series\/2012\/07\/16\/gJQAumxdpW_story.html?hpid=z3\"><strong>WP<\/strong><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/rip-donald-j-sobol-creator-of-encyclopedia-brown,82530\/\">A\/V Club<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2012\/07\/16\/leroy-brown-1963-2012\/\">Patrick @ Balko<\/a>.) I got a great deal of enjoyment out of Mr. Sobol&#8217;s work when I was young, and I am saddened by his death (though 87 is a good run).<\/p>\n<p>As regular readers know, I generally do not solicit donations here. But I would like to note that in lieu of flowers, the family has asked for donations to the New York Public Library to support services for kids. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure3.convio.net\/nypl\/site\/Donation2?df_id=3940&amp;3940.donation=form1&amp;s_src=FRW13HM_QDSN\">You can donate here, if you&#8217;d like.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of these have been noted on FARK or elsewhere, but I want to round them up here for completeness: Stephen R. Covey. Kitty Wells, noted country singer. (&#8220;It Wasn\u2019t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels&#8221;) (A\/V Club.) John Lord, keyboard player for Deep Purple. I also wanted to say a few words about Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-clippings","category-music","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521","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=7521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7523,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions\/7523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}