{"id":23,"date":"2014-08-17T23:23:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/?p=23"},"modified":"2014-08-17T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T23:48:11","slug":"robin-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Robin Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not since the death of Tim Russert have I been so sad when learning of a public figure’s untimely passing. \u00a0Robin had such a bright life force – it was blinding at times. \u00a0Since his death I’ve learned about many of his charitable activities. \u00a0I knew he raised money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital because my mother and niece met him once during a visit he made to Memphis. \u00a0He was patient and accommodating with the interruption and request for a photo.<\/p>\n

After learning of the shameless posturing by Rush Limbaugh (it’s hard to even type his name), my husband summed up the situation beautifully with this statement:<\/p>\n

Robin Williams was an entertainer who, despite his drug addiction, chose to work to make the world a happier place.<\/strong><\/p>\n


Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer who, despite his drug addiction, chooses to work to spread fear and hate in the world.<\/span><\/strong>

Rest in peace, Mr. Williams.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Not since the death of Tim Russert have I been so sad when learning of a public figure’s untimely passing. \u00a0Robin had such a bright life force – it was blinding at times. \u00a0Since his death I’ve learned about many of his charitable activities. \u00a0I knew he raised money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital… Continue reading Robin Williams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pejBSQ-n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thursdayschild.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}