{"id":5273,"date":"2012-04-19T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T19:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2012-04-19T13:43:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T20:43:50","slug":"dick-clark-made-life-look-like-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/dick-clark-made-life-look-like-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Clark Made Life Look Like a Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dick Clark, known for American Bandstand (1952-1989), New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (1974-2012), Pyramid (1973-1988), TV Bloopers & Practical Jokes,\u00a0 Top 40 Countdown, and countless successful entertainment productions, died yesterday at the age of 82. A man who was synonymous with “fun” combined America’s love of music and television to produce long-lasting hits of his own. Some go as far as to credit him with creating and giving a voice to youth culture when there was none.<\/p>\n

Like Betty White, he is a legend of Hollywood who didn’t understand the word “no”. While other entertainers gracefully fade, Clark was full of ideas and happiest when his thoughts were put into action.\u00a0 After a stroke several years ago that left him unable to talk, he re-learned basic skills and had a come back appearances with co-host Ryan Seacrest on New Year’s Eve countdown TV production from New York. Dick Clark was known as the World’s Oldest Teenager.<\/p>\n

Born Richard Flagstaff Clark on Nov. 30, 1929 in Bronxville, New York, he died of a massive heart attack in a Santa Monica hospital where he was receiving an outpatient procedure on April 18, 2012. His\u00a0 family (wife Kari Wigton & Clark’s 3 children from 2 previous marriages) said there will be no funeral but a public memorial service is yet to be determined.\u00a0 Clark and Wigton were married approx. 35 years and lived in Malibu.<\/p>\n

Other entertainers who have passed away recently include Whitney Houston<\/a> and Earl Scruggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dick Clark, known for American Bandstand (1952-1989), New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (1974-2012), Pyramid (1973-1988), TV Bloopers & Practical Jokes,\u00a0 Top 40 Countdown, and countless successful entertainment productions, died yesterday at the age of 82. A man who was synonymous with “fun” combined America’s love of music and television to produce long-lasting hits of his own. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}