{"id":233,"date":"2008-06-24T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/z-issue.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2012-05-23T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:06:19","slug":"a-huge-loss-for-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/a-huge-loss-for-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"A huge loss for comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, at the age of 71, George Carlin died of heart failure.  He was certainly a comedic icon, probably most remembered for &#8220;Al the Hippy Dippy Weatherman,&#8221; the &#8220;7 words you can&#8217;t say on television,&#8221; or just his general antistructuralistic sentiments.  He leaves behind a generation of comics that modeled their humour and their routines after him.  If there were ever given a PhD in comedy routines, I personally believe that George Carlin would be at the top of the list of possible recipients.  In that regard, peace be with you Dr. Carlin.<\/p>\n<p><IMG src=\"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/blog_imgs\/carlin.jpg\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" alt=\"George Carlin\" \/><\/p>\n<p>|:| Zach |:|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, at the age of 71, George Carlin died of heart failure. He was certainly a comedic icon, probably most remembered for &#8220;Al the Hippy Dippy Weatherman,&#8221; the &#8220;7 words you can&#8217;t say on television,&#8221; or just his general antistructuralistic sentiments. He leaves behind a generation of comics that modeled their humour and their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/a-huge-loss-for-comedy\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[47,62,60,51],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-humour","tag-miscellaneous","tag-tidbit","tag-viewpoint","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/z-issue.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}