{"id":6996,"date":"2008-06-23T09:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T09:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/rip_george_carlin.html"},"modified":"2008-06-23T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T09:03:33","slug":"rip-george-carlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/personal\/rip-george-carlin.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP George Carlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was around 12, I was exposed to George Carlin comedy for the first time. I was always fascinated by this man. He thought of things which were so obvious but only after he told you they were obvious. I followed Carlin over the years, seeing him live and watching him in various movies and on TV. <br \/>I witnessed his phase where he was obsessed with profanity in the early eighties, then politics in the late eighties, then profanity once again around 2000 and then philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Carlin was a genius as far as i am concerned. Crude and loving every minute of it is a great way to describe him.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Carlin recently <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5ina7M8zC1QQGSxe-e-PxBrf9kl0gD91FORCO3\">passed away<\/a> and the world has lost someone special &#8212; someone who entertained us, wasn&#8217;t afraid to share his deepest thoughts while making us stop and think.<\/p>\n<p>RIP George Carlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was around 12, I was exposed to George Carlin comedy for the first time. I was always fascinated by this man. He thought of things which were so obvious but only after he told you they were obvious. I followed Carlin over the years, seeing him live and watching him in various movies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}