{"id":5986,"date":"2011-11-05T10:34:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2011-11-05T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T14:35:12","slug":"rip-andy-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5986","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Andy Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z110511andy_rooney.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Andy Rooney<\/strong>, the long time [1978 &#8211; 2011] closing commentator for <strong>CBS&#8217; <em>60 Minutes<\/em><\/strong>, died yesterday after complications following an undisclosed minor surgery.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Rooney<\/strong> was <strong>92<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although best known for his <em><strong>&#8220;A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> segment on <strong>60 Minutes<\/strong>, <strong>Mr. Rooney<\/strong> actually started working in <strong>television<\/strong> right after  <strong>World War II<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Rooney<\/strong> worked as a writer for <strong>Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore, Victor Borge<\/strong>, and others. \u00a0 Yet it was <strong>Mr. Rooney&#8217;s commentaries<\/strong> on<em><strong> 60 Minutes<\/strong><\/em> that made him a household name.\u00a0 We came to know his likes likes [football, books, shined shoes, <strong>President Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/strong>, Christmas, etc.] and dislikes [ads in magazines, roadmaps that you can&#8217;t fold back, people who ask for autographs, etc.].\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Rooney<\/strong> said what we thought and came to feel like a friend of the family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to <strong>Mr. Rooney&#8217;s<\/strong> family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Rooney, the long time [1978 &#8211; 2011] closing commentator for CBS&#8217; 60 Minutes, died yesterday after complications following an<\/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-5986","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\/5986","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=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}