{"id":1853,"date":"2008-06-23T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2008-06-23T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:29:00","slug":"george-carlin-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"George Carlin: RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SGAj46Gc-SI\/AAAAAAAABTI\/BlnXqh-2ZD4\/s1600-h\/z062308carlin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SGAj46Gc-SI\/AAAAAAAABTI\/BlnXqh-2ZD4\/s400\/z062308carlin.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215207829071001890\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">George Carlin<\/span>, who had suffered from heart problems for years, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">died yesterday<\/span> at the age of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">71<\/span>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Carlin<\/span>, best known for his comedy routine about the &#8220;seven words you can&#8217;t say on television,&#8221; was one of the brightest and wittiest comedians to ever grace a stage.  Carlin&#8217;s comedy made you think.  He challenged your ideas and made you laugh at the same time.  What better send off than to quote some of my favorite <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=h67k9eEw9AY\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Carlinisms<\/span><\/a>:<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span class=\"body\">Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?<br \/><\/span><span class=\"body\"><br \/><\/span><span class=\"body\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"body\">I&#8217;m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose&#8230; it&#8217;ll be much harder to detect.\n<p><\/span><span class=\"body\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"body\">One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"body\"><\/span><span class=\"body\">When someone is impatient and says, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t got all day,&#8221; I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li>If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn&#8217;t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:100%;color:#005c5c;\"   >I think it&#8217;s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:100%;color:#005c5c;\"   ><a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The whole meaning of life is trying to find a place for your stuff.<\/span><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:100%;color:#005c5c;\"   >George Carlin repeatedly crossed the line and made me laugh every time.  I miss him already.  My  best wishes go out to his family, friends and fans.  I leave you with <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=3PiZSFIVFiU\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">George Carlin&#8217;s thoughts on death [do not click on the link if you are offended by profanity or jokes about religion].<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Carlin, who had suffered from heart problems for years, died yesterday at the age of 71. Carlin, best known<\/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":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","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=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}