{"id":175,"date":"2004-05-18T20:24:37","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T00:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2012-12-24T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T23:18:05","slug":"tony-randall-1920-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Tony Randall 1920-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TonyRandall.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\">Having for a couple of weeks inhabited his spirit, if not his body, for an <i>Odd Couple<\/i> spoof of sorts a few years back (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacredfools.org\/CrimeScene\/CaseFiles\/S4\/OddFellas.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Brad in <i>OddFellas<\/i><\/a>), the news of his passing was all the more sad to me. Good god was he funny. And a genius.<\/p>\n<p>One of his last jokes, caught by Paul B., from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2004\/05\/18\/obituary1022EDT0531.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><i>AP<\/i> obituary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Randall joked in September about how he envisioned his funeral: President Bush and Vice President Cheney would show up to pay their respects, but they&#8217;d be turned away because his family knows he didn&#8217;t like them. During a speech to the National Funeral Directors Association, he said funerals should be planned as a celebration of life and &#8220;a touch of humor doesn&#8217;t hurt a bit.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having for a couple of weeks inhabited his spirit, if not his body, for an Odd Couple spoof of sorts a few years back (Brad in OddFellas), the news of his passing was all the more sad to me. Good god was he funny. And a genius. One of his last jokes, caught by Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}