{"id":20947,"date":"2018-09-07T17:56:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T21:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20947"},"modified":"2018-09-07T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T21:56:17","slug":"rip-burt-reynolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20947","title":{"rendered":"RIP &#8211; Burt Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z090718rip_burtreynolds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was sad to read that Burt Reynolds died yesterday at the age of 82 from cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like most of you reading this, I was a huge Burt Reynolds fan and have many fond memories watching him on television and at the movies.\u00a0 My favorite Burt Reynolds&#8217; films include <em>Sharkey&#8217;s Machine<\/em>; <em>The Longest Yard<\/em>, <em>The Last Movie Star<\/em> and of course, <em>Smokey and the Bandit<\/em>.\u00a0 Keep in mind that&#8217;s just the tip of the Reynolds acting iceberg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Part of Reynolds&#8217; charm was his charm.\u00a0 His appearances on Carson and other talk shows of the era allowed us to see Reynolds as a self-deprecating\u00a0celebrity who never took himself too seriously.\u00a0 He came off as a guy with a great sense of humor that would be fun to be with.\u00a0 And he was.\u00a0 At least he was every time he&#8217;d turn up in a movie or television role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you haven&#8217;t seen Reynolds in <em>The Last Movie Star<\/em>, give it a go.\u00a0 He&#8217;s really good in it and it serves as a nice capper to his career.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace Burt Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Reynolds family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to read that Burt Reynolds died yesterday at the age of 82 from cardiac arrest. Like most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947","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=20947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20948,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20947\/revisions\/20948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}