{"id":538,"date":"2004-03-08T16:17:21","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T21:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2010-07-11T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T13:26:22","slug":"damn-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., Spalding Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wabc\/features\/entertainment\/wabc_030804_spaldinggrey.html\">Spalding Gray&#8217;s body found in the East River.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere I guess I was holding out hope.  That the man was holed up in a Nantucket cabin or something.  Working on something new, maybe having a nervous breakdown, but not dead.<\/p>\n<p>I can say, even though this is sad, and I didn&#8217;t know the man &#8230; at least his body was found. Now his family can have the closure of a burial, memorials can happen &#8211; the man can be acknowledged.  An important part of grief.<\/p>\n<p>But still.  It&#8217;s sad.<\/p>\n<p>Spalding Gray.  Your writing and your one-man pieces were an inspiration not only to me, but to many others.<\/p>\n<p>You will be very missed.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taintedbill.com\/archives\/002001.html\">McCabe<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spalding Gray&#8217;s body found in the East River. Somewhere I guess I was holding out hope. That the man was holed up in a Nantucket cabin or something. Working on something new, maybe having a nervous breakdown, but not dead. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=538\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16591,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/16591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}