{"id":9792,"date":"2022-11-14T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2022-11-14T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T18:49:45","slug":"gallagher-the-comedian-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/14\/gallagher-the-comedian-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher The Comedian Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallagher, the watermelon smashing comedian, passed away just a few days ago (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/12\/1136263017\/gallagher-comedian-watermelon-sledgehammer-dies\">via<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I was tremendously lucky to see him perform live in 2006. That performance was an invitation to enjoy and fall in love with chaos, an energy that I embodied for many years, having recently changed my life by moving to the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20060128Gallagher1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/thumb-20060128Gallagher1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20060128Gallagher2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/thumb-20060128Gallagher2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20060128Gallagher3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/thumb-20060128Gallagher3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 320px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9792-1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gallagher-20060128.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gallagher-20060128.mp4\">https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gallagher-20060128.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallagher, the watermelon smashing comedian, passed away just a few days ago (via). I was tremendously lucky to see him perform live in 2006. That performance was an invitation to enjoy and fall in love with chaos, an energy that I embodied for many years, having recently changed my life by moving to the Bay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9801,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/9801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}