{"id":2918,"date":"2013-10-25T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2013-10-25T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T16:51:03","slug":"death-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/2013\/10\/25\/death-in-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Death in the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2919\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" alt=\"Jeff_Newland_rounded\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jeff_Newland_rounded.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jeff_Newland_rounded.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Jeff_Newland_rounded-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Long time personal friend and friend of the show, Jeffrey Newland, was killed earlier this week. \u00a0The circumstances surrounding his death are mysterious and the police are still investigating, but they have ruled his death a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>He was a very smart and funny man who dedicated his life to helping others. \u00a0I am crushed by this loss and my heart aches for his wife and sons and extended family.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff was one of the small handful of guests I&#8217;ve ever had on the show, so I thought it relevent to include this news here. \u00a0He was on episode <a title=\"#215: Smoke and Rear View Mirrors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/2010\/07\/24\/215-smoke-and-rear-view-mirrors\/\">#215: Smoke and Rear View Mirrors<\/a> in late July, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>I am still in Stage One of the grieving process: Denial. \u00a0I keep expecting to wake up, or find out this was a joke, that Jeff is pulling an elaborate prank on me with skillfully edited video tapes and the help of all our friends and classmates. \u00a0But, he wouldn&#8217;t do that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Trails, Jeff Newland. \u00a0(He&#8217;ll understand what that means)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time personal friend and friend of the show, Jeffrey Newland, was killed earlier this week. \u00a0The circumstances surrounding his death are mysterious and the police are still investigating, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}