{"id":212,"date":"2018-04-06T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T01:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2018-04-06T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T01:37:10","slug":"don-rickles-a-year-without-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/don-rickles-a-year-without-laughs\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Rickles &#8211; A Year Without Laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d be fibbing if we said we had no laughs in the last year, but I sure miss the man.\u00a0 Rickles was the finest, funniest &#8220;stand-up&#8221; comedian I&#8217;ve had the honor to see.\u00a0 His career speaks for itself.\u00a0 His quick wit, his ability to maintain and entertain and audience, often all of the time at peak levels, is just astounding.\u00a0 A kind and loving man off-stage, the world is surely less funny without him in it.\u00a0 I miss him so much.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/don-rickles-dead-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-214\" src=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/don-rickles-dead-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/don-rickles-dead-2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/don-rickles-dead-2-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/don-rickles-dead-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/tv\/news\/don-rickles-dead-dies-comedian-insult-vegas-1202025068\/\">Photo Credit<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d be fibbing if we said we had no laughs in the last year, but I sure miss the man.\u00a0 Rickles was the finest, funniest &#8220;stand-up&#8221; comedian I&#8217;ve had the honor to see.\u00a0 His career speaks for itself.\u00a0 His quick wit, his ability to maintain and entertain and audience, often all of the time at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/don-rickles-a-year-without-laughs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don Rickles &#8211; A Year Without Laughs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}