{"id":7781,"date":"2016-09-16T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T18:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7781"},"modified":"2016-09-17T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:08:52","slug":"edward-albee-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/16\/edward-albee-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Albee Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-edward-albee-20160916-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The LA Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<header class=\"trb_ar_h\">\n<div class=\"trb_ar_hl\">\n<h1 class=\"trb_ar_hl_t\">Playwright Edward Albee, 3-time Pulitzer winner and &#8216;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&#8217; author, dead at 88<\/h1>\n<p class=\"trb_ar_hl_t\">by Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Edward Albee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-57dc8fed\/turbine\/la-1474072691-snap-photo\/750\/750x422\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died in suburban New York City at age 88. (Jennifer S. Altman\/For The Times)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died in suburban New York City at age 88.<\/p>\n<p>Albee challenged theatrical convention in masterworks such as &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&#8221; and &#8220;A Delicate Balance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Albee assistant Jackob Holder says the playwright died Friday at his home on Long Island. No cause of death has been given.<\/p>\n<p>Albee had been arguably America&#8217;s greatest living playwright after the deaths of Arthur Miller and August Wilson in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp-tongued humor and dark themes were the hallmarks of Albee&#8217;s style. In more than 25 plays Albee skewered such mainstays of American culture as marriage, child-rearing, religion and upper-class comforts.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-edward-albee-20160916-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times Playwright Edward Albee, 3-time Pulitzer winner and &#8216;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&#8217; author, dead at 88 by Associated Press Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died in suburban New York City at age 88. (Jennifer S. Altman\/For The Times) Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has died in suburban New [&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-7781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781","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=7781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}