{"id":14,"date":"2008-08-04T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bradbushnell.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-08-04T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:02:08","slug":"gone-but-not-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Gone. . . but not forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 22, 2008 George Carlin, famed comedian and social observer passed away. \u00a0It was just a little longer then that when my wife and I managed to cue up George Carlin&#8217;s latest recorded show: &#8220;It&#8217;s Bad For Ya&#8221; \u00a0Truly hilarious and something worth cherishing. \u00a0I saw somewhere an individual commented that &#8220;<em>Carlin had faded a little bit, but with this show he really had regained his glory.&#8221; \u00a0<\/em>It&#8217;s rather poetic that in this final recorded HBO show he discusses just how long you should keep somebody in your address book after they have passed. \u00a0Carlin with emphasis declares that it&#8217;s &#8220;6 weeks!&#8221; \u00a0Well, as of August 3, exactly 6 weeks ago, George Carlin left us. \u00a0Given that today is August 4th, by George Carlin&#8217;s reckoning, he should be stricken from the books. \u00a0In my humble opinion, I don&#8217;t think that is going to be possible. \u00a0God Bless George. \u00a0Keep telling jokes and hopefully you will make life after death. . . a laughing matter. \u00a0Gone, but never forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 22, 2008 George Carlin, famed comedian and social observer passed away. \u00a0It was just a little longer then that when my wife and I managed to cue up George Carlin&#8217;s latest recorded show: &#8220;It&#8217;s Bad For Ya&#8221; \u00a0Truly hilarious and something worth cherishing. \u00a0I saw somewhere an individual commented that &#8220;Carlin had faded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-deep-thoughts","7":"category-laughing-at-life","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}