{"id":363,"date":"2005-10-12T16:20:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2005-10-12T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T16:20:46","slug":"final_wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/12\/final_wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a> is linking this afternoon to a <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/chicagotribune\/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&#038;PersonId=15361018\">obituary<\/a> for one Theodore Roosevelt Heller, an 88-year-old man who must&#8217;ve been quite a character. In addition to noting that he &#8220;forced his way back into the Illinois National Guard [after being discharged from the Army], insisting no one tells him when to serve his country,&#8221; the obit also contains this line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn lieu of flowers, please send acerbic letters to Republicans.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You just know this guy&#8217;s going to have an interesting eulogy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boing Boing is linking this afternoon to a Chicago Tribune obituary for one Theodore Roosevelt Heller, an 88-year-old man who must&#8217;ve been quite a character. In addition to noting that he &#8220;forced his way back into the Illinois National Guard [after being discharged from the Army], insisting no one tells him when to serve his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}