{"id":12034,"date":"2007-05-02T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/tom-poston-dead-at-85\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T11:55:00","slug":"tom-poston-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/tom-poston-dead-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Poston Dead At 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/05\/01\/tv.obit.poston.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"181\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Tom Poston\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/tomposton.jpg\" \/><\/a><i>CNN<\/i> reports that actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/05\/01\/tv.obit.poston.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Poston has died at the age of 85<\/a> from an undisclosed illness.  Although <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0692976\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Poston<\/a> was perhaps best known for his roles on TV shows like <i>Newhart<\/i> and <i>Mork and Mindy<\/i>, his movie and TV career spanned over five decades.  This is quite sad news&hellip; \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/60819\/Tom-Poston-RIP\" target=\"_blank\">This <i>MetaFilter<\/i> thread<\/a> has some nice comments, and the <i>New York Times<\/i> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/02\/obituaries\/02poston.html?_r=1&amp;ref=obituaries&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">more extensive obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/obituaries\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">obituaries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/tv\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-1313777926878822243?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that actor Tom Poston has died at the age of 85 from an undisclosed illness. Although Tom Poston was perhaps best known for his roles on TV shows like Newhart and Mork and Mindy, his movie and TV career spanned over five decades. This is quite sad news&hellip; \ud83d\ude41 Update: This MetaFilter thread &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/tom-poston-dead-at-85\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tom Poston Dead At 85&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}