{"id":1619,"date":"2017-06-30T14:11:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2017-06-30T14:11:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:11:51","slug":"clever-obit-is-also-prophetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"Clever obit is also prophetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>KILLEBREW, Patrick, \u201cPat,\u201d age 68, passed away peacefully at home, June 20, 2017, after watching the Washington Nationals relief pitchers blow yet another lead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So began Mr. Killebrew\u2019s obituary listed this week\u00a0in the <em>Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/em>. Sometimes we alert one another to obituaries because we know the people involved\u2026 other times because they\u2019re clever. (Sometimes because they\u2019re just really well written.)<\/p>\n<p>His obit ends with a plea to, in lieu of flowers, send donations to the Nationals Bullpen Fund.<\/p>\n<p>You see yesterday\u2019s game?<\/p>\n<p>Guess they\u2019re still in the raising money phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILLEBREW, Patrick, \u201cPat,\u201d age 68, passed away peacefully at home, June 20, 2017, after watching the Washington Nationals relief pitchers blow yet another lead. So began Mr. Killebrew\u2019s obituary listed this week\u00a0in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Sometimes we alert one another &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1619\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}