{"id":1564,"date":"2007-08-12T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2007-08-12T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T16:50:00","slug":"rip-merv-griffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Merv Griffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/Rr86Y7Xso8I\/AAAAAAAAApw\/pvuJXBlc-tQ\/s1600-h\/z081207_merv.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/Rr86Y7Xso8I\/AAAAAAAAApw\/pvuJXBlc-tQ\/s400\/z081207_merv.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097857503135048642\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >A few minutes ago it came over the wires that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >Merv Griffin<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" > had passed away from prostate cancer at the age of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >82<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >.   <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >Mr. Griffin<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" > started out as a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >singer<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >, but really hit it big with his self-titled <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >talk show<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" > which ran for more than 20 years.  He is also known for being the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >creative genius <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-family:arial;\" >behind two of television&#8217;s most popular and longest running game shows  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Jeopardy&#8221; <\/span>and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Wheel of Fortune.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Growing up, I enjoyed watching <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">The Merv Griffin Show<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">.  <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;\">Merv<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> always seemed like a down-to-earth guy who was having fun hanging out with the celebrities joining him for the day.  He was a true success story.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and fans.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/Rr9BTbXso9I\/AAAAAAAAAp4\/24JFIBgCRw0\/s1600-h\/z081207_merv2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/Rr9BTbXso9I\/AAAAAAAAAp4\/24JFIBgCRw0\/s400\/z081207_merv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097865105227162578\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes ago it came over the wires that Merv Griffin had passed away from prostate cancer at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[17,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/1564","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=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}