{"id":2033,"date":"2012-04-19T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2012-04-19T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:30:07","slug":"goodbye-mr-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/goodbye-mr-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Mr. Clark&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;ll have to fill in as the <em>MR Coroner<\/em>, as <em><strong>Sunn<\/strong><\/em> has disappeared from our Community and <em><strong>J.J.<\/strong><\/em> is out crossing the countryside somewhere&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>Dick Clark<\/strong><\/em>, The <em>American icon<\/em> of \u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;American Bandstand&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>, famous for introducing new music acts in the late &#8217;50&#8217;s into the &#8217;60&#8217;s on the new entertainment format known as <strong>&#8220;TV&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0He also hosted the <strong>&#8220;Rockin&#8217; in the New Year&#8217;s&#8221;<\/strong> celebration in <em><strong>New York<\/strong><\/em> starting in the late &#8217;90&#8217;s, and except for a couple of years in the mid-2000&#8217;s when he had a heart attack, he did so up to and including <strong>2012<\/strong>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0He was <em>82 years old<\/em> (I thought he had to be older than that, I mean I&#8217;d been hearing his name since I was a kid), and died of a heart attack on the <strong>18th<\/strong> when he went in for some minor out-patient treatment in <em><strong>L.A.<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0See Ya hosting the <em><strong>New American Bandstand<\/strong><\/em> one of these days in the <em><strong>Other World<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>Goodbye, Mr. Clark&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;ll have to fill in as the MR Coroner, as Sunn has disappeared from our Community and J.J. is out crossing the countryside somewhere&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Dick Clark, The American icon of \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;American Bandstand&#8221;, famous for introducing new music acts in the late &#8217;50&#8217;s into the &#8217;60&#8217;s on the new entertainment format known as &#8220;TV&#8221;&#8230;.. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,2,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}