{"id":1292,"date":"2006-09-04T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2006-09-04T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T14:49:00","slug":"rip-steve-croc-hunter-irwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Steve &quot;Croc Hunter&quot; Irwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4379\/3235\/1600\/z090406croc.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4379\/3235\/400\/z090406croc.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">When I first read the news this morning that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\" >S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\" >teve &#8220;Croc Hunter&#8221; Irwin<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"> had been <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\" >killed by a stingray<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">, I have to admit that I thought it might have been a sick hoax.   So I immediately started checking legitimate news sources and found that the news was true and had spread all over the internet and tv.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Irwin<\/span> became an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">international celebrity<\/span> in 1992 when his <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Croc Hunter&#8221;<\/span> television show was picked up by the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Discovery Channel<\/span>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Irwin&#8217;s genuine love of nature and animals<\/span> was infectious and I don&#8217;t know anyone who didn&#8217;t know and enjoy his work.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Steve Irwin<\/span> leaves behind a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">wife and two children<\/span> as well as <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">a world of fans<\/span>.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to them all.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first read the news this morning that Steve &#8220;Croc Hunter&#8221; Irwin had been killed by a stingray, I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}