{"id":1252,"date":"2008-01-22T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/01\/22\/m-w-28-doa\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T23:08:00","slug":"m-w-28-doa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/01\/22\/m-w-28-doa\/","title":{"rendered":"M\/W\/28&#8230;DOA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/22\/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead\/\">Heath Ledger is dead.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s going to be a lot of frivolous reporting in the next few days&#8211;especially since this year&#8217;s Academy Award nominees were also announced today, and that&#8217;s one hell of a juicy juxtaposition&#8211;but before you drown in that bottomless pit, here&#8217;s some perspective from the NYPD:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ON TUESDAY, 01\/22\/08, AT APPROXIMATELY 1530 HOURS, IN THE CONFINES OF THE 5 PRECINCT, POLICE RESPONDED TO 421 BROOME STREET AND FOUND A M\/W\/28 UNCONSCIOUS. THE VICTIM WAS PRONOUNCED DOA AT THE SCENE. M.E.\u2019S OFFICE TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF DEATH. INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the official police summary of the incident.  We all look the same to the Grim Reaper.  <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Death lays his icy hands on kings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heath Ledger is dead. There&#8217;s going to be a lot of frivolous reporting in the next few days&#8211;especially since this year&#8217;s Academy Award nominees were also announced today, and that&#8217;s one hell of a juicy juxtaposition&#8211;but before you drown in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}