{"id":41179,"date":"2014-02-24T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/im-terrified-beyond-the-capacity-for-rational-thought.html"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:53:26","slug":"im-terrified-beyond-the-capacity-for-rational-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/im-terrified-beyond-the-capacity-for-rational-thought.html","title":{"rendered":""I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought""},"content":{"rendered":"
RIP Harold Ramis. Who, if he'd only co-written and and acted in Ghostbusters<\/i> would be considered a comic genius. But he did a hell of a lot more.<\/p>\n

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Actor, filmmaker\u00a0Harold Ramis\u00a0dies at 69<\/b><\/p>\n

+<\/span>Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/span>:\u00a0 Actor, writer and director Harold Ramis has died at 69, his wife said.<\/p>\n

Ramis was best known for his work on \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d and \u201cGhostbusters.\u201d<\/p>\n

His wife Erica Mann Ramis said he died from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/b> http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/chi-harold-ramis-dead-20140224,0,2259309.story<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow this story and reaction:<\/b> http:\/\/www.breakingnews.com\/topic\/harold-ramis-dies\/<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Harold Ramis, Chicago actor, writer and director, dead at 69<\/a>
\n Harold Ramis was one of Hollywood\u2019s most successful comedy filmmakers when he moved his family from Los Angeles back to the Chicago area in 1996. His career was still thriving, with “Groundhog Day” acquiring almost instant classic status upon its 1993 release and 1984’s “Ghostbusters” ranking among the highest-grossing comedies of all time, but the writer-director wanted to return to the city where he\u2019d launched his career as a Second City perfor…\n <\/p>\n

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RIP Harold Ramis. Who, if he'd only co-written and and acted in Ghostbusters would be considered a comic genius. But he did a hell of a lot more. Reshared post from +Breaking News Actor, filmmaker\u00a0Harold Ramis\u00a0dies at 69 +Chicago Tribune:\u00a0 Actor, writer and director Harold Ramis has died at 69, his wife said. Ramis was … Continue reading “"I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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-41179","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":131088,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/15\/ghostbusters-fans-the-next-generation.html","url_meta":{"origin":41179,"position":0},"title":"Ghostbusters Fans: The Next Generation","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Jul-16 10:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"A funny, and touching, piece by Harold Ramis' daughter. 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