{"id":3165,"date":"2009-09-26T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T05:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2009-09-26T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T05:22:47","slug":"sad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/26\/sad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"sad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received the sad news that our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/14\/a-behind-the-scenes-hero\/\">beloved former stage manager<\/a>, Bob McClung, passed away Saturday.\u00a0 He died from complications due to cancer.\u00a0 I hope to post an obituary and biography early this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received the sad news that our beloved former stage manager, Bob McClung, passed away Saturday.\u00a0 He died from complications due to cancer.\u00a0 I hope to post an obituary and biography early this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-P3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4748,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/07\/sad-news-for-the-viola-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":3165,"position":0},"title":"sad news for the viola world","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Omar Hern\u00e1ndez-Hidalgo, one of Mexico's and the world's finest young violists was found dead in Tijuana after an apparent kidnapping. 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