{"id":89,"date":"2008-06-23T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/newblog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2008-06-23T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T13:37:49","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. George Carlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you haven&#8217;t heard the very, very sad news, George Carlin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/25322638\/&amp;GT1=43001\" target=\"_blank\">passed away yesterday<\/a> at the age of 71 due to heart failure.<\/p>\n<p>George Carlin was not only a fantastic comedian but a hero who accomplished much for free speech and bringing awareness of the importance of our principal freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>For those who haven&#8217;t heard of him (if you&#8217;re outside of the US this is entirely possible), see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fFmRypAYz_E\" target=\"_blank\">this video<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KBxzvSbGJ2w\" target=\"_blank\">this video<\/a> for a small sampling. In addition, if you&#8217;ve ever seen one of the many variations of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l_PkJ_4oEjc\" target=\"_blank\">usage of the word fuck<\/a> videos &#8211; that&#8217;s George Carlin (well, the videos are added by others, but the words are written and spoken by George Carlin in most of the videos). He truly was a brilliant and amazing man who I hope history will remember forever.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace &#8211; I miss you already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you haven&#8217;t heard the very, very sad news, George Carlin passed away yesterday at the age of 71 due to heart failure. George Carlin was not only a fantastic comedian but a hero who accomplished much for free speech and bringing awareness of the importance of our principal freedoms. For those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}