{"id":8224,"date":"2017-02-21T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2017-02-26T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:27:16","slug":"andys-death-re-visited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/21\/andys-death-re-visited\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy&#8217;s Death Re-visited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/21\/arts\/design\/andy-warhols-death-not-so-routine-after-all.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Andy Warhol\u2019s Death: Not So Simple, After All<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0BLAKE GOPNIK<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/02\/21\/arts\/21warhol-item\/21warhol-item-master768.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"caption-text\">Andy Warhol, in 1987.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"credit\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Credit:\u00a0<\/span>Associated Press\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPop Icon\u00a0<a class=\"meta-per\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/person\/115970\/Andy-Warhol?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Warhol<\/a>\u00a0Dies After Routine Surgery\u201d ran the headline in The Houston Chronicle. Time magazine questioned how \u201cthe country\u2019s most famous pop artist dies in a prestigious big-city hospital after a rather routine gallbladder operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A routine surgery: Some version of that story was repeated around the world in the days and decades after the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/02\/23\/obituaries\/andy-warhol-pop-artist-dies.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">death<\/a>\u00a0of the 58-year-old artist, the 30th anniversary of which is on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. John Ryan, a medical historian and retired surgeon, has recast the story line. \u201cThis was major, major surgery \u2014 not routine \u2014 in a very sick person,\u201d Dr. Ryan,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiamasonfoundation.org\/john-ryan\" target=\"_blank\">emeritus chief of surgery at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle<\/a>, said in a recent phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/21\/arts\/design\/andy-warhols-death-not-so-routine-after-all.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Andy Warhol\u2019s Death: Not So Simple, After All By\u00a0BLAKE GOPNIK Andy Warhol, in 1987.\u00a0Credit:\u00a0Associated Press\u00a0 \u201cPop Icon\u00a0Andy Warhol\u00a0Dies After Routine Surgery\u201d ran the headline in The Houston Chronicle. Time magazine questioned how \u201cthe country\u2019s most famous pop artist dies in a prestigious big-city hospital after a rather routine gallbladder operation.\u201d [&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-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","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=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}