{"id":169,"date":"2011-05-18T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/bob-flanigan-dies\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:02:09","slug":"bob-flanigan-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/bob-flanigan-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"Bob Flanigan Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-bob-flanigan-20110517,0,3749424.story?track=rss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bob Flanigan<\/a> of the Four Freshman died last Sunday\u2026\n<p>Their work inspired the Beach Boys, the Lettermen, Manhattan Transfer and a host of others\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-8969947278286998348?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Flanigan of the Four Freshman died last Sunday\u2026 Their work inspired the Beach Boys, the Lettermen, Manhattan Transfer and a host of others\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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