{"id":63,"date":"2010-04-13T06:20:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T06:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog?p=63"},"modified":"2010-04-13T06:24:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T06:24:55","slug":"jerry-conklin-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/jerry-conklin-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Conklin Passes Away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I am real late with this news (finding out after the fact) and it has been reported many places elsewhere in the magic community &#8211; But I did want to make mention of it and a few words with my own insight.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blogblogpostimages\/04132010_jerryconklin.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Conklin\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jerry Conklin was one of the real &#8220;old timers&#8221; and one half of the &#8220;Amazing Conklins.&#8221; He lived and was based out of Colon, Michigan ever since I can remember. I saw many of his illusion shows at the annual Abbott Get-Together&#8217;s and always learned much from him. Ironically, he was born in the same year as my mom, 1928.<\/p>\n<p>I know in recent months he had been active on his Facebook page and is where I re-connected with him. RIP &#8211; Both you as a person and your performances will be greatly missed Jerry. But will live on in all of our memories forever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I know I am real late with this news (finding out after the fact) and it has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-63","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-friends","8":"tag-recent-deaths"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}