{"id":7749,"date":"2014-08-23T14:11:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/23\/theodore-dalrymple-a-man-who-had-never-heard-of-robin-williams\/"},"modified":"2014-08-23T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T14:11:16","slug":"theodore-dalrymple-a-man-who-had-never-heard-of-robin-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/23\/theodore-dalrymple-a-man-who-had-never-heard-of-robin-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Theodore Dalrymple: A Man Who Had Never Heard of Robin Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until he hung<\/span> hanged himself, that is.  Williams, that is.<\/span><\/p>\n

I knew who Williams was, though I have seen only two of his films, The Dead Poets' Society<\/em> and Mrs. Doubtfire<\/em>. From what I know of the others I have no desire to see them.  The gushing over celebrities at their passing is as tolerable as it is predictable.  One only wishes that people had better judgment about who is really worthy of the highest accolades and encomia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is the memorable carpe diem<\/em> scene from The Dead Poets' Society<\/em>.  I think Dalrymple would appreciate it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Companion posts:  If Obituaries Were Objective . . . <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

If Obituaries Were Objective II . . . <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

And oh yes, here<\/a> is the Dalrymple piece.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Until he hung hanged himself, that is.  Williams, that is. I knew who Williams was, though I have seen only two of his films, The Dead Poets' Society and Mrs. Doubtfire. From what I know of the others I have no desire to see them.  The gushing over celebrities at their passing is as tolerable … Continue reading “Theodore Dalrymple: A Man Who Had Never Heard of Robin Williams”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,145,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-obituaries","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","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=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}