{"id":3274,"date":"2005-12-17T22:48:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-18T06:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/12\/17\/3274.html"},"modified":"2005-12-17T22:48:22","modified_gmt":"2005-12-18T06:48:22","slug":"rip-john-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/12\/17\/rip-john-spencer\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., John Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Actor John Spencer, who played Leo McGarry on <cite>The West Wing<\/cite>, died on Friday of a heart attack, a few days short of his 59th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Kam and I recently finished watching season 4 of the series; we're giving up on it now, having heard it goes seriously downhill in quality in the next season.  But four seasons of excellence is pretty good, and Spencer did a really great job as Leo.<\/p>\n<p>Some links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/ae\/articles\/1218spencer1218.html\"><cite>Arizona Republic<\/cite> obituary<\/a>, featuring a nice anecdote about about other cast members reacting well to Spencer's well-deserved Emmy win in 2002.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2005\/12\/16\/entertainment\/e145408S40.DTL\">AP obituary<\/a>, featuring quotes from various people associated with the show.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/media\/west_wing\/spencer.html\">Excerpts from a NewsHour interview<\/a> from 2000 (with some bizarre not-quite-exact repetitions)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0817983\/\">IMDB page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Spencer_%28actor%29\">Wikipedia entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor John Spencer, who played Leo McGarry on The West Wing, died on Friday of a heart attack, a few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,81,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-entertainment","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}