{"id":11033,"date":"2010-12-26T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/26\/tripke-joins-turnupseed\/"},"modified":"2010-12-26T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T16:52:26","slug":"tripke-joins-turnupseed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/26\/tripke-joins-turnupseed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripke Joins Turnupseed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0147e10989ce970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0147e10989ce970b\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0147e10989ce970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"James\" \/><\/a> When the young James Dean crashed his low slung silver Porsche Spyder on a lonely California highway on September 30, 1955, he catapulted a couple of unknowns into the national spotlight.&#0160; One of them was Ernie Tripke, one of two California Highway Patrol officers who arrived at the scene.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-ernie-tripke-20101226,0,4503693.story\" target=\"_self\">He has died <\/a>at the age of 88.&#0160; But what ever happened to Donald Turnupseed, the driver who turned in front of the speeding Dean, having failed to see him coming?&#0160; His story is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findadeath.com\/Deceased\/t\/turnupseed\/thedonald.htm\" target=\"_self\"> here<\/a>.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Is dying young a bad thing for the one who dies?&#0160; What if it makes you &#39;immortal&#39; as in the case of James Dean?&#0160; More grist for the Epicurean mill.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the young James Dean crashed his low slung silver Porsche Spyder on a lonely California highway on September 30, 1955, he catapulted a couple of unknowns into the national spotlight.&#0160; One of them was Ernie Tripke, one of two California Highway Patrol officers who arrived at the scene.&#0160; He has died at the age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/26\/tripke-joins-turnupseed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tripke Joins Turnupseed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}