{"id":43358,"date":"2014-07-05T10:46:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T16:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/05\/rip-bob-hastings.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:51:32","slug":"rip-bob-hastings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/05\/rip-bob-hastings.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Bob Hastings"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bob Hastings was a face that nobody who watched TV in the 60s and 70s could fail to recognize (check out his CV at http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0368561\/<\/a>). \u00a0But I had no idea that he was the long-time voice of Commissioner Gordon in "Batman: The Animated Series" and subsequent video renditions. \u00a0He did a great in the role. \u00a0Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Chris Dee<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Cat-Tales<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Batman: Remembering Jim.<\/b><\/p>\n

Remembering a great James Gordon:
Bob Hastings, April 18, 1925-June 30, 2014<\/i>
Batman: The Animated Series\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Bob Hastings was a face that nobody who watched TV in the 60s and 70s could fail to recognize (check out his CV at http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0368561\/). \u00a0But I had no idea that he was the long-time voice of Commissioner Gordon in "Batman: The Animated Series" and subsequent video renditions. \u00a0He did a great in the role. … Continue reading “RIP, Bob Hastings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43359,"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":[106,45,852,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-cartoons","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-media-performers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/batman-remembering-jim.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134517,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/book-review-inferno-max-hastings-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":43358,"position":0},"title":"Book Review: “Inferno” by Max Hastings (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Sep-17 4:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book as touted as telling about WW2 through personal diaries, letters, and other individual accounts, which made me think that was the only thing it would do. 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