{"id":28223,"date":"2016-12-30T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T16:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=28223"},"modified":"2017-02-10T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T03:58:48","slug":"2016-necrology-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/2016-necrology-i\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Necrology I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During 2016, many people died, some of whom were famous. This happens every year. 2016 was a really lousy year for many reasons, but not because a lot of celebrities died.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the dead performers were adequately memorialized \u2014 the hoopla surrounding David Bowie&#8217;s departure was downright ridiculous<span id='easy-footnote-1-28223' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/2016-necrology-i\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-28223' title='When I listen to a Bowie song, it is usually because a more interesting musician like &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EsSlOGzPM90&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Rick Wakeman&lt;\/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GA27aQZCQMk&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Robert Fripp&lt;\/a&gt; plays on it.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u2014 but a few were overlooked, and I discovered their deaths weeks or months later.<\/p>\n<p>One whom I miss is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Elliott_(comedian)\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Elliott<\/a>, half of Bob and Ray. I wonder if youngsters today can sit still long enough to appreciate B&#038;R&#8217;s unhurried delivery. Here are some of their skits, some of which are older than I am.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPhwWDj6feE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQna34cbPpg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzvl4Wz2dkc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ed9KRab_2_Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1-zihbZpC0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re truly desperate, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bobandraytoaster\" target=\"_blank\">Bob and Ray Toaster<\/a> at archive.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2016, many people died, some of whom were famous. This happens every year. 2016 was a really lousy year for many reasons, but not because a lot of celebrities died. Most of the dead performers were adequately memorialized \u2014 the hoopla surrounding David Bowie&#8217;s departure was downright ridiculous \u2014 but a few were overlooked, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/2016-necrology-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2016 Necrology I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-7ld","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29748,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28223\/revisions\/29748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}