{"id":4551,"date":"2013-06-20T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2013-06-20T16:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:45:57","slug":"slim-whitman-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/20\/slim-whitman-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Slim Whitman Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\/metro\/2013-06-19\/story\/1923-2013-country-star-slim-whitman-middleburg-has-died\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Florida Times-Union<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>1923-2013: Country star Slim Whitman of Middleburg has died<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/authors\/dan-scanlan-0\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Scanlan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w15nr7A3vN8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Known as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Favorite Folksinger,\u201d Slim Whitman\u2019s songs were marked with his soaring yodel.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Whitman, who has lived in Middleburg for years, is dead at 90. He passed away at 1 a.m. Wednesday at Orange Park Medical Center, family friend Sherry Raymer said.<\/p>\n<p>Many remember Mr. Whitman\u2019s yodelling in his 1952 hit \u201cIndian Love Call\u201d as the weapon that killed invading aliens in the 1996 movie \u201cMars Attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the one who killed the blasted Martians,\u201d he joked in a 2008 Times-Union interview.<\/p>\n<p>But back in 1991, Mr. Whitman told The Associated Press he wanted to be remembered as \u201ca nice guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019ve ever heard anything bad about me, and I\u2019d like to keep it that way,\u201d Mr. Whitman said. \u201cI\u2019d like my son [Byron] to remember me as a good dad. I\u2019d like the people to remember me as having a good voice and a clean suit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was a good man who never sang anything suggestive, said Raymer, who also knew him from the Jacksonville Church of the Brethren they attended. He died from heart failure, according to the AP, a bit more than four years after his wife of 67 years, Alma Crist Whitman, died at 84.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\/metro\/2013-06-19\/story\/1923-2013-country-star-slim-whitman-middleburg-has-died\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Florida Times-Union<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Florida Times-Union 1923-2013: Country star Slim Whitman of Middleburg has died By\u00a0Dan Scanlan Known as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Favorite Folksinger,\u201d Slim Whitman\u2019s songs were marked with his soaring yodel. Mr. Whitman, who has lived in Middleburg for years, is dead at 90. He passed away at 1 a.m. Wednesday at Orange Park Medical Center, family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}