{"id":2141,"date":"2013-04-04T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2013-04-04T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:05:27","slug":"roger-ebert-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2013\/04\/04\/roger-ebert-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Ebert Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Roger Ebert\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roger_ebert\">Roger Ebert<\/a>, my favorite film critic passed away from complications of cancer today. Given today&#8217;s fragmented media market, he will never be outdone. There&#8217;s much that could be said about his career and influence, but I will gladly leave this to others who are more knowledgeable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But I wanted to post this letter Ebert sent to an student who was about 11 or 13 at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/63467_10151553847131438_333189332_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2142\" alt=\"RogerEbertLetter\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/63467_10151553847131438_333189332_n.jpg\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/63467_10151553847131438_333189332_n.jpg 568w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/63467_10151553847131438_333189332_n-350x400.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dana Stevens went on to study comparative literature at UC Berkeley, started a blog and is now a professional film critic. She has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic and the Washington Book World, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Proof that real letters are more inspiring than e-mail!<\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3260\">Humphrey Bogart<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2677\">R.I.P. George Romero, Martin Landau<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2515\">Noir City<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2146\">Color Footage of London, 1927<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2141\">Roger Ebert Dead<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Ebert, my favorite film critic passed away from complications of cancer today. Given today&#8217;s fragmented media market, he will never be outdone. There&#8217;s much that could be said about his career and influence, but I will gladly leave this to others who are more knowledgeable. But I wanted to post this letter Ebert sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}