{"id":22937,"date":"2019-10-29T17:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=22937"},"modified":"2020-02-14T20:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T02:55:01","slug":"rip-john-witherspoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/10\/29\/rip-john-witherspoon\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP John Witherspoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This guy, not Bill Cosby, was one of America&#8217;s dads. It&#8217;s a role he honed in the Nineties via\u00a0<em>Friday, The Wayans&#8217; Brothers Show<\/em>\u00a0and obviously\u00a0<em>Boondocks<\/em> a decade later. John was just a great character guy as he proved in\u00a0<em>Hollywood Shuffle\u00a0<\/em>(the owner of the fast-food place the hero can&#8217;t wait to quit), a preacher in\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m Gonna&#8217; Git You Sucka<\/em> and a crazy local in the very underrated\u00a0<em>Black Jesus<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I would be negligent to overlook his skill at serious, dramatic appearances in (but not necessarily good)\u00a0<em>Fatal Instinct, LA Law, Hill Street Blues\u00a0<\/em>and <em>Barnaby Jones<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Given his voice, delivery and general funniness, especially as an adult who may be a bit out of the loop yet has a dollop of wisdom, John was a must have in any coming-of-age comedy for any ethnic group, not just the Black shows\/films he was often seen in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Farewell John. You will be sorely missed and I will always hear your voice whenever I read a\u00a0<em>Boondocks\u00a0<\/em>comic and grandad speaks. I think Aaron McGruder had you in mind from day one when he created his strip. Thanks for all you did to make me laugh! Ho Cakes!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy, not Bill Cosby, was one of America&#8217;s dads. It&#8217;s a role he honed in the Nineties via\u00a0Friday, The Wayans&#8217; Brothers Show\u00a0and obviously\u00a0Boondocks a decade later. John was just a great character guy as he proved in\u00a0Hollywood Shuffle\u00a0(the owner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/10\/29\/rip-john-witherspoon\/\">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":[15,115],"tags":[66,144,184],"class_list":["post-22937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tv","tag-comedy","tag-eighties","tag-nineties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22937","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=22937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23027,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22937\/revisions\/23027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}