{"id":32231,"date":"2013-01-17T13:28:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/rip-dear-abby.html"},"modified":"2013-01-17T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:28:46","slug":"rip-dear-abby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/rip-dear-abby.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Dear Abby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Friedman Phillips) has died. I always enjoyed her column better than her sister&#39;s.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site333\/2013\/0117\/20130117__USObitDearAbby~1_VIEWER.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_22394245\/dear-abby-advice-columnist-dies-at-age-94'>&#8216;Dear Abby&#8217; advice columnist dies at age 94<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMINNEAPOLIS\u2014Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Dear Abby dispensed snappy, sometimes saucy advice on love, marriage and meddling mothers-in-law to millions of newspaper readers around the world and ope&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Mu5VdckAGFB' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Friedman Phillips) has died. I always enjoyed her column better than her sister&#39;s. Embedded Link &#8216;Dear Abby&#8217; advice columnist dies at age 94 MINNEAPOLIS\u2014Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Dear Abby dispensed snappy, sometimes saucy advice on love, marriage and meddling mothers-in-law to millions of newspaper readers around the world and ope&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/rip-dear-abby.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Dear Abby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-32231","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":5454,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/09\/art_imitates_li.html","url_meta":{"origin":32231,"position":0},"title":"Art imitates life, part II","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Mar-04 6:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Someone submitted a Simpsons plotline to \"Dear Abby.\" It got included in the column and was distributed to papers before an editor noticed it and got the column pulled. 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