{"id":398,"date":"2009-08-29T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-08-31T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:32:23","slug":"the-funeral-parlor-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"The Larry Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Wolcott writes amusingly in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2009\/09\/wolcott200909\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> that <em>Larry King Live<\/em>, through its bizarro coverage of the deaths of David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson, has become &#8220;the funeral parlor of the gods.&#8221; Wolcott writes of King, &#8220;Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he&#8217;s strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.&#8221; While Charlie Rose tends to assemble panels of august <em>Times<\/em> and <em>New Yorker<\/em> writers to weigh in on the deceased, King books &#8220;just about any showboat with a slim connection to the departed.&#8221;\u00a0 In closing: &#8220;Elisabeth Kubler-Ross may have given us the five stages of grief, but she left out the sixth: the Larry stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Wolcott writes amusingly in Vanity Fair that Larry King Live, through its bizarro coverage of the deaths of David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson, has become &#8220;the funeral parlor of the gods.&#8221; Wolcott writes of King, &#8220;Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he&#8217;s strapped to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}