{"id":8558,"date":"2013-07-01T17:20:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T21:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T19:28:13","slug":"bob-carter-aka-sammy-terry-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8558","title":{"rendered":"Bob Carter aka Sammy Terry &#8211; R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z070113sammyterry_rip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>I just learned that <strong>Bob Carter<\/strong> passed away yesterday at the age of <strong>83<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Mr. Carter<\/strong> was better known to his thousands and thousands of fans as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Sammy.Terry.Fan.Page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sammy Terry<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you grew up in the midwest (especially <strong>Indiana<\/strong>) in the <strong>1960&#8217;s<\/strong>, odds are you couldn&#8217;t wait for each weekend to roll around and for <strong>Sammy Terry<\/strong> to present his unique brand of humor coupled with a <strong>monster movie<\/strong> or two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From <strong>1962<\/strong> until <strong>1989<\/strong>, <strong>Sammy Terry<\/strong> hosted <strong>Nightmare Theater<\/strong> [later called <strong>Shock Theater<\/strong>] and made personal appearances at events throughout the state. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?s=sammy+terry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sammy was a big part of many kids&#8217; childhoods, mine included<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although I&#8217;m glad his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sammyterrynightmares.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sammy Terry character will live on<\/strong><\/a>, I&#8217;m sad to report the passing of <strong>Bob Carter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0A <strong>public memorial<\/strong> will be held <strong>Friday, July 5, 2013<\/strong> from <strong>4 p.m. to 8 p.m.<\/strong> at <strong>Singleton Mortuary<\/strong>, 7602 Madison Ave., <strong>Indianapolis, IN<\/strong> 46227.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that Bob Carter passed away yesterday at the age of 83. \u00a0Mr. Carter was better known to<\/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":[17,53,63,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","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=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18871,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions\/18871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}