{"id":8850,"date":"2015-09-28T05:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2015-09-27T18:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T00:55:40","slug":"book-21-of-52-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/book-21-of-52-last-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 21 (of 52) – Last Words"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last Words – George Carlin with Tony Hendra<\/p><\/div>\n

Begun in 1993, when George Carlin teamed up with Tony Hendra for the first time to chronicle his life story, Last Words<\/em> was released in 2009, nearly a year and a half after Carlin’s 2008 death. \u00a0The autobiography covers nearly Carlin’s entire life, from the story of his conception to his plans for a Broadway show, plans which never happened due to his passing.<\/p>\n

My first exposure to Carlin was as an actor, appearing as Rufus in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure<\/em>. \u00a0I can only imagine that is what drew me to his HBO comedy special, Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics<\/em>, 2 years later. \u00a0From that point on, I was a fan.<\/p>\n

I had gotten this book as a gift a few years back, and it literally sat in a closet until a few weeks back, when I decided it was time to finally dig into it. \u00a0It covered a lot of familiar territory, but also gave new insight into some of it, explaining why my mom would have been concerned about me listening, in 1990, to the same comic my dad listened to in the early 1970s. \u00a0When Carlin passed, he was recognized as one of the finest comic voices of his, or any other, generation. \u00a0This book reminds you that this was not always the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Begun in 1993, when George Carlin teamed up with Tony Hendra for the first time to chronicle his life story, Last Words was released in 2009, nearly a year and a half after Carlin’s 2008 death. \u00a0The autobiography covers nearly Carlin’s entire life, from the story of his conception to his plans for a Broadway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4876,4048,3641,5910,3824,5909],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-bill-teds-excellent-adventure","tag-dad","tag-george-carlin","tag-last-words","tag-mom","tag-tony-hendra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8856,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/8856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}