{"id":7331,"date":"2016-02-03T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:51:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:51:42","slug":"crackhead-bob-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/03\/crackhead-bob-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackhead Bob Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/crackhead-bob-recurring-guest-howard-stern-died-article-1.2516038\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Daily News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>\u2018Crackhead Bob,\u2019 a recurring guest on \u2018The Howard Stern Show,\u2019 dies at 56<\/h1>\n<p>BY <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Peter-Sblendorio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">PETER SBLENDORIO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2516036.1454341004!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_400\/crackhead2f-2-web.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cCrackhead Bob,\u201d whose real name was George Harvey, has died at 56.\" width=\"480\" \/><em>ROGER KISBY\/GETTY IMAGES<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrackhead Bob,\u201d a fan-favorite recurring guest on \u201cThe Howard Stern Show\u201d in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died at 56.<\/p>\n<p>Bob, whose real name was George Harvey, regularly appeared on Stern\u2019s show for parts of seven years as a member of the Wack Pack \u2014 an eclectic group of guests who typically had something unusual about them.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey earned his nickname after revealing on air that smoking crack led to a series of strokes that hindered his speech and left part of his body paralyzed,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardstern.com\/wack-pack-contributors\/24859-final-farewell-crackhead-bob-dead-56\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to an announcement on Stern\u2019s website on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His good-natured sense of humor and willingness to partake in bits such as singing song covers or making prank phone calls made him one of the more popular members of the Wack Pack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a huge champion of our show,\u201d Stern said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/crackhead-bob-recurring-guest-howard-stern-died-article-1.2516038\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYDN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Daily News \u2018Crackhead Bob,\u2019 a recurring guest on \u2018The Howard Stern Show,\u2019 dies at 56 BY PETER SBLENDORIO ROGER KISBY\/GETTY IMAGES \u201cCrackhead Bob,\u201d a fan-favorite recurring guest on \u201cThe Howard Stern Show\u201d in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died at 56. Bob, whose real name was George Harvey, regularly [&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-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","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=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}