{"id":23512,"date":"2020-06-30T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=23512"},"modified":"2020-06-30T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:10:25","slug":"r-i-p-carl-reiner-heaven-just-got-way-funnier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2020\/06\/30\/r-i-p-carl-reiner-heaven-just-got-way-funnier\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Carl Reiner \u2014 Heaven just got way funnier"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23514\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pinocchio-PR-with-Carl-Reiner.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<p>I met Carl Reiner in 1980 when he hosted an early television appearance of mine, The 5th Annual HBO Young Comedians Special. He was already a legend and icon; a giant in the entertainment industry. In 1984 I had the honor of playing his son in Shelley Duvall&#8217;s Faerie Tale Theatre production of Pinocchio.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone I know who knew or even met Carl learned that in addition to his amazing genius and talent, he was a supremely wonderful, thoughtful, caring and kind man. I think Sarah Silverman described him perfectly today. She said he embodied the word mensch. To his family, friends and all those he entertained, influenced and inspired, I send deeply heartfelt condolences.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven just got way funnier. Rest in Peace, Carl. \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Carl Reiner in 1980 when he hosted an early television appearance of mine, The 5th Annual HBO Young Comedians Special. He was already a legend and icon; a giant in the entertainment industry. In 1984 I had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23515,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23512\/revisions\/23515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}