{"id":45029,"date":"2011-12-07T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=45029"},"modified":"2013-08-30T07:59:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T11:59:30","slug":"rip-harry-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=45029","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Harry Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hWFA29tOul4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I grew up watching <i>M*A*S*H<\/i>.  The finale of the show destroyed me so utterly I cried myself to sleep and then woke up the next day sick and my mother let me stay home from school.  I was despondent.  Harry Morgan had a long career, back to the days of film noir, and he is one of those people who is so wrapped up in my childhood memories that it seems like I actually knew him. I watched <i>M*A*S*H<\/i> before I knew what &#8220;good&#8221; was, before I even thought about why I liked what I liked, and what was good about it.  It was just a show I adored, and the war aspect of it was intriguing to me as a child (I had uncles who were in the service, it helped me to understand them better.)   It wouldn&#8217;t be until much later that I discovered the scope of his career.  His comedic timing was second to none, but there was always something about his face that suggested deep veins of emotion, so when he was required to show that, to tap into that, it was always killer, because I had sensed it there all along.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, he was in <i>Frankie and Johnny<\/i>, with Elvis Presley, and even sings a couple of numbers with him, so randomly Harry Morgan&#8217;s crazy bassline voice will show up on my iPod shuffle.  In the clip above, he talks about working with Elvis.  &#8220;I never met a more polite kid in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RIP, wonderful actor.  I will miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up watching M*A*S*H. The finale of the show destroyed me so utterly I cried myself to sleep and then woke up the next day sick and my mother let me stay home from school. I was despondent. Harry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=45029\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[2095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45029"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70203,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45029\/revisions\/70203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}