{"id":24,"date":"2008-06-23T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2008\/06\/23\/1214235482740.html"},"modified":"2008-06-23T10:38:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T15:38:02","slug":"blogentry-farewell-george-carlin-may-the-forces-of-evil-become-confused-on-the-way-to-your-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Farewell, George Carlin.  May The Forces of Evil become confused on the way to your door."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Carlin died, which I suppose had to happen eventually.  But it&#039;s always sad when such an iconic personality &#8211; even one when you sit back and say, &#034;Wait, have I heard from him in the last 15 years?&#034; &#8212; dies.  It says something about the impact they had on popular culture when their loss hits people that hard, that many years later.<\/p>\n<p\/>(The line above is actually from a Carlin routine that I happened to pull out of memory.) Just last week or so, Jim Norton told a George Carlin joke on Opie and Anthony show last week:<\/p>\n<p\/>&#034;For those of you keeping score, I&#039;m ahead of Richard Pryor in heart attacks 2-1, but Richard&#039;s ahead of me in setting yourself on fire.  It went a little something like this, Richard had a heart attack, then I had a heart attack.  Then Richard set himself on fire, and I said F%^* that, I&#039;m having another heart attack!&#034;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Carlin died, which I suppose had to happen eventually. But it&#039;s always sad when such an iconic personality &#8211; even one when you sit back and say, &#034;Wait, have I heard from him in the last 15 years?&#034; &#8212; dies. It says something about the impact they had on popular culture when their loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}