{"id":13174,"date":"2015-07-31T23:59:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:48:59","slug":"r-i-p-roderick-tombs-aka-rowdy-roddy-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13174","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Roderick Tombs aka &#8220;Rowdy&#8221; Roddy Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/Z073115roddy_pipper_rip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>I was shocked and saddened to ready that<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/rowdyroddypiper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Rowdy&#8221; Roddy Piper<\/a> <\/strong>has passed away from a heart attack at just 61 years of age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wrestling and movie fans appreciated <strong>Mr. Piper&#8217;s<\/strong> skills before a camera. \u00a0What I liked even more were the things <strong>Rowdy Roddy<\/strong> did when the camera was off and he was back to being <strong>Roderick Tombs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By all accounts he was a humble, family man who was gracious with everyone he met. \u00a0Funny that most of his wrestling career he played a heel. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/2015\/07\/31\/rowdy-roddy-piper-r-i-p\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Evanier wrote a nice tribute<\/a><\/strong> to <strong>Roderick Tombs<\/strong> aka <strong>Roddy Pipper<\/strong> that will show you the kind of person he was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My thoughts and prayers go out to <strong>Roderick Tombs<\/strong> family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked and saddened to ready that &#8220;Rowdy&#8221; Roddy Piper has passed away from a heart attack at just<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174","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=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27663,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions\/27663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}