{"id":8361,"date":"2012-10-22T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2012-10-22T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:20:43","slug":"obit-watch-october-22-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=8361","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: October 22, 2012."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Means, controversial Indian activist, actor, Libertarian Party presidential candidate, and vice-presidential nominee during Larry Flynt&#8217;s attempt to get the Republican nomination in 1984, has died. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-russell-means-indian-activist-actor-dies-at-72-20121022,0,3901740.story\"><strong>LAT<\/strong><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/23\/us\/russell-means-american-indian-activist-dies-at-72.html?hp&amp;pagewanted=all\"><strong>NYT<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/23\/us\/russell-means-american-indian-activist-dies-at-72.html?hp&amp;pagewanted=all\">Told in the summer of 2011 that the cancer was inoperable, Mr. Means had already resolved to shun mainstream medical treatments in favor of herbal and other native remedies. <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How&#8217;s that working for you?<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d give the George McGovern obits a day, which is why I didn&#8217;t post them on Sunday. For the record: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/22\/us\/politics\/george-mcgovern-a-democratic-presidential-nominee-and-liberal-stalwart-dies-at-90.html?hpw&amp;pagewanted=all\"><strong>NYT<\/strong><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-george-mcgovern-20121021,0,6479047,full.story\"><strong>LAT<\/strong><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/george-s-mcgovern-democratic-nominee-who-lost-to-nixon-in-72-dies-at-90\/2012\/10\/21\/1db1dda8-c5db-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage&amp;tid=pp_widget\"><strong>WP<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Means, controversial Indian activist, actor, Libertarian Party presidential candidate, and vice-presidential nominee during Larry Flynt&#8217;s attempt to get the Republican nomination in 1984, has died. (LAT. NYT.) Noted: Told in the summer of 2011 that the cancer was inoperable, Mr. Means had already resolved to shun mainstream medical treatments in favor of herbal and [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-obits","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","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=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8363,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}