{"id":12829,"date":"2014-08-11T18:25:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T23:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12829"},"modified":"2020-07-30T08:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:55:05","slug":"but-doctor-i-am-pagliacci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12829","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/news\/ni57586957\/?ref_=hm_nw_tp_t4\">Robin Williams dead of an apparent suicide at age 63.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williams, along with Richard Pryor, was one of the true authentic comic geniuses of my lifetime. As a stand-up comic, his mind was so quick and his work was so manically innovative that his basic appeal actually survived transition to the straitjacket confines of a prime-time sitcom. He was a solid dramatic supporting actor, but it&#8217;s a shame that (unlike Pryor) he never found a movie that served the true essence of his comic genius.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/scifi.stackexchange.com\/questions\/131380\/was-rorschachs-pagliacci-joke-a-real-joke\">Subject line hat tip.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Williams dead of an apparent suicide at age 63. Williams, along with Richard Pryor, was one of the true authentic comic geniuses of my lifetime. As a stand-up comic, his mind was so quick and his work was so manically innovative that his basic appeal actually survived transition to the straitjacket confines of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,474],"tags":[1975,597,1827,1987],"class_list":["post-12829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tv","tag-movies","tag-obituary","tag-robin-williams","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19065,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions\/19065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}