{"id":547,"date":"2010-05-26T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/a-belated-goodbye-to-ray-alan\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:05:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:05:22","slug":"a-belated-goodbye-to-ray-alan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/a-belated-goodbye-to-ray-alan.html","title":{"rendered":"A Belated Goodbye to Ray Alan"},"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><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ray Alan with &quot;Lord Charles&quot; - World&#039;s Greatest Ventriloquist - 1986\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C3Zn3M-WMzM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_Alan\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ray Alan<\/a> 1930-2010<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-9080564742920819989?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Alan 1930-2010<\/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-547","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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