{"id":6502,"date":"2020-09-12T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2020-09-12T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:07:28","slug":"more-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2020\/09\/12\/more-death\/","title":{"rendered":"More Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am late to post about this, but I was very saddened by the news of a couple recent deaths.<\/p>\n

The world of television and film lost a titan with the passing of Dame Diana Rigg.\u00a0\u00a0 Such an amazing talent.\u00a0\u00a0 It was such an honor to have her on GAME OF THRONES as the Queen of Thorns.\u00a0 I only had the chance to meet her once, when I visited the set the first year she was on the show.\u00a0\u00a0 As brief as that meeting was, I count that a rare privilege.\u00a0 A lovely lady. \u00a0 As great as she was as Olenna Tyrell, for me… and for most every other member of my generation… she will always remain Emma Peel.<\/p>\n

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I was also moved by the death of Tom Seaver — Tom Terrific, the Franchise, the Hall of Fame pitcher for the Amazin’ Mets who led them to their World Series Championship in 1969.\u00a0\u00a0 I never met Seaver at all, but of course I was a fan.\u00a0\u00a0 I do not follow Major League Baseball as much as I did when I was younger, but as a kid in Jersey I was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, and had my heart ripped out when Da Bums moved to LA.\u00a0\u00a0 So of course I became a Mets fan when they began play in 1962 as an expansion team.\u00a0\u00a0 I suffered through all the years of losing — as lovable as they were, they were still losers — and the turnaround led by Seaver and Koosman and the rest of the Amazin’s in ’69 was nothing short of miraculous.<\/p>\n

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It is odd, when you think of it, how caught up a sports fan can get in the fortunes of their team… but the emotions are real.\u00a0\u00a0 That World Series victory made me so very very happy, that even now half a century later I still smile when I recall it.<\/p>\n

And in these dark days, we need every smile.<\/p>\n

Goodbye, Tom.\u00a0 Goodbye, Diana.\u00a0 Rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am late to post about this, but I was very saddened by the news of a couple recent deaths. The world of television and film lost a titan with the passing of Dame Diana Rigg.\u00a0\u00a0 Such an amazing talent.\u00a0\u00a0 It was such an honor to have her on GAME OF THRONES as the Queen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,58,279],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}