{"id":22,"date":"2017-01-01T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2016-12-31T18:18:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T18:18:50","slug":"cheer-up-lots-of-people-didnt-die-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/cheer-up-lots-of-people-didnt-die-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheer Up! Lots of People Didn’t Die in 2016 !"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dumpsterEveryone keeps referring to 2016 as the dumpster fire that never quit burning. It seemed like every few days someone who made a brilliant mark on this world died. But it wasn\u2019t all<\/em> bad\u2026 here are some folks who didn\u2019t<\/em> die in 2016 . (I waited until 12:01 AM, January 1 to post it just to make sure no one on the list died at the last minute.)<\/p>\n

\"james
\nJames Stewart<\/p>\n

\"catwoman
\nCesar Romero and Eartha Kitt<\/p>\n

\"bob
\nBob Denver (Little Buddy!)<\/p>\n

\"Abraham
\nAbe Lincoln<\/p>\n

\"helen
\nHelen Keller<\/p>\n

\"dinosaur\"
\nThis inflatable dinosaur and friends<\/p>\n

\"kurt
\nKurt Cobain<\/p>\n

\"lemmy
\nLemmy from M\u000f\u00f8t\u00f8rhead<\/p>\n

\"ronaldRonald Reagan<\/p>\n

\"ray
\nRay Nitschke<\/p>\n

\"styx
\nThat Guy from Styx (No, that other guy)<\/p>\n

\"charles
\nCharles Schulz<\/p>\n

\"matchbox
\nThe Guy driving this car<\/p>\n

\"jon
\nJon Lovitz<\/p>\n

\"Paul
\nPaul Newman<\/p>\n

\"nighthawksJames Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart and that guy behind the counter in that famous painting.<\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t that make you feel better?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone keeps referring to 2016 as the dumpster fire that never quit burning. It seemed like every few days someone who made a brilliant mark on this world died. But it wasn\u2019t all bad\u2026 here are some folks who didn\u2019t die in 2016 . (I waited until 12:01 AM, January 1 to post it just … Continue reading “Cheer Up! Lots of People Didn’t Die in 2016 !”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[13,15,14,17,10,18,16],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-seriousness-aside","category-people","tag-13","tag-cookies","tag-inflatable-dinosaurs","tag-lego","tag-musings","tag-ron-ruelle","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ronruelle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}