{"id":14516,"date":"2003-10-28T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/28\/rod-roddy-dead-at-66\/"},"modified":"2003-10-28T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T12:56:00","slug":"rod-roddy-dead-at-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/28\/rod-roddy-dead-at-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Roddy Dead At 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/10\/27\/entertainment\/main580335.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Rod Roddy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/rodroddy.jpg\" \/><\/a>TV game show mainstay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/10\/27\/entertainment\/main580335.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Roddy died yesterday<\/a> from cancer at the age of 66.  Best known for being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/daytime\/price\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Price Is Right<\/i><\/a>&rsquo;s jovial, flashy-dressing announcer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/daytime\/price\/about\/bios\/cast_bios_rroddy.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">almost 20 years<\/a>, his trademark line &ldquo;Come on down!&rdquo; will always ring in my memory.<\/p>\n<p>As I sort of mentioned just the other day, I hate the fact that this site looks like an obituary page recently.  However, we&rsquo;ve lost some personalities that really left an impression on me in some way, so I felt it was only fitting to honor their memories with a small tribute here.  Maybe I need to seek out and post some good news to cheer myself up&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106734577867572027?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV game show mainstay Rod Roddy died yesterday from cancer at the age of 66. Best known for being The Price Is Right&rsquo;s jovial, flashy-dressing announcer for almost 20 years, his trademark line &ldquo;Come on down!&rdquo; will always ring in my memory. As I sort of mentioned just the other day, I hate the fact &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/28\/rod-roddy-dead-at-66\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rod Roddy Dead At 66&#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-14516","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\/14516","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=14516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}