{"id":1443,"date":"2007-04-04T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2007-04-04T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T23:56:00","slug":"bob-clark-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Bob Clark &#8211; RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RhQ_Cd0oCsI\/AAAAAAAAAYg\/VseUZJYWxgk\/s1600-h\/z040407bobclark.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049730393786813122\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RhQ_Cd0oCsI\/AAAAAAAAAYg\/VseUZJYWxgk\/s400\/z040407bobclark.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Director <strong>Bob Clark<\/strong> and his <strong>22 year old son Ariel<\/strong> were killed early this morning when a car suddenly swerved over and hit them head on. The driver of the other car was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and gross vehicular manslaughter. While the accident killed <strong>Clark and his son<\/strong>, the other driver suffered only minor injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>Bob Clark<\/strong> is best known for <strong>co-writing and directing<\/strong> the classic<strong> &#8220;A Christmas Story&#8221;<\/strong>. <strong>Mr. Clark<\/strong> was also the brains behind the very successful <strong>&#8220;Porky&#8217;s&#8221;<\/strong> [which he co-wrote and directed] which in turn led to several sequels. <strong>Mr. Clark<\/strong> directed many other films [horror, comedy, children&#8217;s], including <strong>&#8220;Rhinestone&#8221;<\/strong> [with <strong>Sly Stallone<\/strong> and <strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong>].<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">I&#8217;ll never forget the first time I watched <strong>&#8220;Porky&#8217;s&#8221;<\/strong> with my brother-in-law. We laughed until we cried and talked about the movie for days. <strong>Christmas <\/strong>isn&#8217;t <strong>Christmas<\/strong> without watching <strong>&#8220;A Christmas Story&#8221;<\/strong> with the family. <strong>Bob Clark<\/strong> not only left us with some fun films, he provided the source of some great family memories as well.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends, and fans.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Bob Clark and his 22 year old son Ariel were killed early this morning when a car suddenly swerved<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","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=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}