{"id":12037,"date":"2012-10-10T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12037"},"modified":"2012-10-10T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:21:49","slug":"rest-in-peace-alex-karras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/10\/rest-in-peace-alex-karras\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Alex Karras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Karras was 77 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/8485773\/alex-karras-detroit-lions-defensive-great-dies-age-77\" target=\"_blank\">when he passed away today<\/a>.  How did that happen?  He was just in his forties thirty years ago.  When I was a boy.<\/p>\n<p>I never saw him play, but I read of him in Jerry Kramer&#8217;s <em>Instant Replay<\/em>, and I read his book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/book-report-tuesday-night-football-by-alex-karras-with-douglas-graham-1991\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday Night Football<\/a><\/em> five years ago, and I&#8217;ve mostly thought of him <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/why-cant-modern-football-players-act\/\" target=\"_blank\">as an actor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I&#8217;m sad to see him go.  Sometimes it&#8217;s the b-players and bit memories in your life that are the most acutely sad in passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Karras was 77 when he passed away today. How did that happen? He was just in his forties thirty years ago. When I was a boy. I never saw him play, but I read of him in Jerry Kramer&#8217;s Instant Replay, and I read his book Tuesday Night Football five years ago, and I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12039,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037\/revisions\/12039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}