{"id":516,"date":"2007-03-06T07:29:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2007-03-06T07:29:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T15:29:22","slug":"death-of-the-hokey-pokey-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2007\/03\/06\/death-of-the-hokey-pokey-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of the Hokey Pokey Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent me this today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is<br \/>\nworth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went<br \/>\nunnoticed last week.  Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote &#8220;The Hokey Pokey&#8221;<br \/>\ndied peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family<br \/>\nwas getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the<br \/>\ntrouble started.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent me this today: With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote &#8220;The Hokey Pokey&#8221; died peacefully at the age of 93. The most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-8k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}