{"id":1740,"date":"2008-12-05T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2008-12-05T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T21:33:22","slug":"forrest-ackerman-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Ackerman, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ackerman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ackerman.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ackerman\" width=\"93\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1741\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Writer, editor, agent, movie fan and Hollywood character Forrest J Ackerman, who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term &#8220;sci-fi,&#8221; died Dec. 4 at his home here of heart failure. He turned 92 last week, on the same day MST3K celebrated its 20th birthday. MSTies will recall his bit part as &#8220;park victim&#8221; in episode 1004- FUTURE WAR<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hTwBvlbmS_52cjIRk2GxegXzCx1AD94SPFMG1\">Read his full AP obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Writer, editor, agent, movie fan and Hollywood character Forrest J Ackerman, who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term &#8220;sci-fi,&#8221; died Dec. 4 at his home here of heart failure. He turned 92 last week, on the same day MST3K celebrated its 20th birthday. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rip","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}