{"id":18957,"date":"2017-04-08T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T21:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=18957"},"modified":"2017-04-08T16:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T21:55:43","slug":"rip-don-rickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2017\/04\/08\/rip-don-rickles\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Don Rickles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m glad Mr. Rickles had a long and prosperous life (90) because he was a WWII Veteran that participated in the horrors of war unlike other Showbiz types (*cough* St. Reagan and Clint Eastwood).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My brother and I knew of him as the mean guy who insulted everybody on\u00a0<em>The Tonight Show<\/em> and those Dean Martin Roasts you could still see on NBC. We were always puzzled how the subjects of his barbs laughed instead of getting angry. As we grew older, we then had a better idea. Rickles&#8217; short-lived SitCom was something we also watched,\u00a0<em>CPO Sharkey<\/em>. Being a Navy vet, I&#8217;m confident he knew the role down pat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Outside of comedy, he was a legitimate &#8220;serious&#8221; actor but those demonstrations for me were in the vampire movie\u00a0<em>Innocent Blood<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farewell Mr. Rickles, thank you for all your rat-a-tat style of putdowns.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m glad Mr. Rickles had a long and prosperous life (90) because he was a WWII Veteran that participated in the horrors of war unlike other Showbiz types (*cough* St. Reagan and Clint Eastwood). My brother and I knew of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2017\/04\/08\/rip-don-rickles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,115],"tags":[154,306],"class_list":["post-18957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions","category-tv","tag-seventies","tag-stand-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18958,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions\/18958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}