{"id":524,"date":"2006-02-28T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T16:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/threes\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T16:16:02","slug":"threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/threes\/","title":{"rendered":"Threes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abe Vigoda’s birthday last week prompted me to install the Abe Vigoda Status plugin for Firefox<\/a>. I didn’t know that my actions would set off a chain reaction of star deaths over the weekend<\/a>. Darrin McGavin was my favorite of the bunch. His roles in Christmas Story<\/a> and Night Stalker<\/a> make him a much loved actor from my childhood. Jon already posted a remembrance<\/a> and mentioned his digital cameo in the disappointing attempt at reviving (or is that re-imagining?) Night Stalker last fall. Abe Vigoda was on a flight I took from NYC to Dallas when I was living there in the mid-90’s. I said a brief hello. He was showing his age a bit then, but he was still flirting with the flight attendants and calling them “sweetheart”. Looks like he’ll outlast them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abe Vigoda’s birthday last week prompted me to install the Abe Vigoda Status plugin for Firefox. I didn’t know that my actions would set off a chain reaction of star deaths over the weekend. Darrin McGavin was my favorite of the bunch. His roles in Christmas Story and Night Stalker make him a much loved […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3fonJ-threes","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}