{"id":27148,"date":"2013-02-11T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/nicole-belle\/memoriam-17"},"modified":"2013-02-11T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T00:00:09","slug":"in-memoriam-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/in-memoriam-4\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Donald Byrd (1932 &#8211; 2013) &#8212; Fancy Free, recorded June 1969<\/p>\n<p>For the second week in a row, there were no military casualties recorded in Afghanistan. The total number of allied service members killed in Afghanistan remains <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Ficasualties.org%2F\">3,257<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we may be thankful for the lull in casualties in the Middle East, we must also say good-bye to the following notable names:<br \/>Schoolteacher (and illegitimate daughter of Strom Thurmond) <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heraldonline.com%2F2013%2F02%2F09%2F4607782%2Fessie-mae-washington-williams.html\">Essie Mae Washington-Williams<\/a>, singer\/songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic-arts%2Ftroggs-singer-reg-presley-dies-71-article-1.1255559\">Reg Presley,<\/a> jazz musician <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Farticles%2Fnews%2F1538546%2Fjazz-great-donald-byrd-dead-nephew-says\">Donald Byrd<\/a> (video above), Alabama school bus driver murderer and child abductor <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.masslive.com%2Fnews%2Findex.ssf%2F2013%2F02%2Fcoroner_alabama_hostage-taker.html\">Jimmy Lee Dykes<\/a>, movie make up artist <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsfeed.time.com%2F2013%2F02%2F07%2Fmakeup-artist-stuart-freeborn-creator-of-star-wars-yoda-dies-at-98%2F\">Stuart Freeborn<\/a>, jazz musician <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fmusic%2Fnews%2Fpaul-tanner-of-the-glenn-miller-orchestra-dead-at-95-20130206\">Paul Tanner<\/a>, film producer <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Finsidemovies.ew.com%2F2013%2F02%2F08%2Fchris-brinker-dies-boondock-saints-producer%2F\">Chris Brinker<\/a>, artist <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fgalleristny.com%2F2013%2F02%2Frichard-artschwager-whose-multifarious-work-defied-categorization-dies-at-89%2F\">Richard Artschwager<\/a>, and professional table tennis player <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fasia_pacific%2Fzhuang-zedong-athlete-and-key-figure-in-1971-china-us-pingpong-diplomacy-dies-at-72%2F2013%2F02%2F10%2F9476bfdc-737e-11e2-9889-60bfcbb02149_story.html\">Zhuang Zedong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Byrd (1932 &#8211; 2013) &#8212; Fancy Free, recorded June 1969<br \/>\nFor the second week in a row, there were no military casualties recorded in Afghanistan. The total number of allied service members killed in Afghanistan remains 3,257.<br \/>\nWhile we may be thankf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}