{"id":137894,"date":"2019-02-21T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T02:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/rip-peter-tork.html"},"modified":"2019-02-21T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T02:46:49","slug":"rip-peter-tork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/rip-peter-tork.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Peter Tork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter was the the &quot;dumb blonde&quot; of the Monkees, friendly and gentle and (presented as) kind of stupid, but still lovable. He&#39;s the one on the left in the picture below. <\/p>\n<p>Tork was the oldest of the Monkees, and he&#39;s the second, after Davey Jones, to pass away. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks, sir, for the many hours of musical (and TV) entertainment you offered me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/peter-tork-endearingly-offbeat-bassist-and-singer-in-the-monkees-dies-at-77\/2019\/02\/21\/479cf4ae-35ee-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.3e8067307c0e'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/YR_7AQpmgnnJ0lAd0_khSsL5sLA7HlujXRv_visvIbrLpX91f0Ckwt5xE_kAoU1U853o00t_RvkfJK7rXYn_PltvqaQU-MKjrE0-dGfbPPl6OvQtR40uUxrTQapO4R2Mob_8_xBU2D1FMYxAsV_dWy9MyNfJnXMSF7uuH1JAxB5Mj0r8P-fc7Ir9QNu6xnsrMCWnXBttQW4cBNjq74L8lPZFztdd3x3mX2SwKhwN_ZoDcgOPP3AEmQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/peter-tork-endearingly-offbeat-bassist-and-singer-in-the-monkees-dies-at-77\/2019\/02\/21\/479cf4ae-35ee-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.3e8067307c0e'>washingtonpost<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/jiq4kM7rrpy'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter was the the &quot;dumb blonde&quot; of the Monkees, friendly and gentle and (presented as) kind of stupid, but still lovable. He&#39;s the one on the left in the picture below. Tork was the oldest of the Monkees, and he&#39;s the second, after Davey Jones, to pass away. Thanks, sir, for the many hours of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/rip-peter-tork.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Peter Tork&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26761,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/rip-davey-jones.html","url_meta":{"origin":137894,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Davy Jones","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Feb-12 11:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"I grew up loving the Monkees, and their TV show, and their music, and, for obvious naming reasons, always appreciated Davy Jones (even if the teen heart-throb thing was a bit much). 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Originally shared by +Terence Towles Canote: Tonight it will have been 50 years since The Monkees debuted on NBC. #themonkees View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9301,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/bt06_reviews_of.html","url_meta":{"origin":137894,"position":2},"title":"BT06 &#8211; Reviews of Real Comic Books","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Jul-06 4:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, now for something marginally different.\u00a0 Rather than TPBs, I'm going to do some of the regular comics I'm reading today.\u00a0 I went and grabbed stuff I'd received and read...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogathon&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21559,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/unblogged-bits-wed-13-jul-11-1731.html","url_meta":{"origin":137894,"position":3},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 13-Jul-11 1731)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Jul-11 5:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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