{"id":18262,"date":"2014-08-12T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18262"},"modified":"2014-08-12T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T14:04:08","slug":"robin-williams-gone-thats-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/12\/robin-williams-gone-thats-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Williams. Gone? That&#8217;s nuts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/08\/12\/robin-williams-gone-thats-nuts\/robinwilliams-park-bench\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RobinWilliams-park-bench-450x254.jpg\" alt=\"RobinWilliams-park-bench\" width=\"450\" height=\"254\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A time or two I&#8217;ve heard about somebody&#8217;s suicide and secretly thought they did the right thing, saving themselves or their families years of living hell. Other times, suicide has seemed like a rational, or at least a reasonable, choice after a life well-lived but now winding down.<\/p>\n<p>But Robin Williams? <i>Robin Williams???<\/i> Of course he had demons. He laid them out before the world. But he also had such energy, empathy, manic joy, delight in a world whose every sound and action seemed to pass through him as if he were a human translator of all things wacky and strange. Robin Williams killing himself?<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s just too &#8230; impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/12\/movies\/robin-williams-an-improvisational-genius-forever-present-in-the-moment.html\" target=\"_blank\">three<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/08\/12\/many-faces-and-one-of-a-kind-the-making-of-robin-williams.html\" target=\"_blank\">best<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/08\/11\/opinion\/seymour-robin-williams\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">articles<\/a> memorializing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A time or two I&#8217;ve heard about somebody&#8217;s suicide and secretly thought they did the right thing, saving themselves or their families years of living hell. Other times, suicide has seemed like a rational, or at least a reasonable, choice after a life well-lived but now winding down. But Robin Williams? Robin Williams??? Of course he had demons. He laid them out before the world. But he also had such energy, empathy, manic joy, delight in a world whose every sound and action seemed to pass through him as if he were a human translator of all things wacky and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/12\/robin-williams-gone-thats-nuts\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robin Williams. Gone? That&#8217;s nuts.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}