{"id":4990,"date":"2011-05-21T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2011-05-21T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:09:17","slug":"macho-man-randy-savage-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=4990","title":{"rendered":"Macho Man Randy Savage &#8211; R.I.P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/randysavagemisselizabeth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4991\" title=\"randysavagemisselizabeth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/randysavagemisselizabeth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/randysavagemisselizabeth.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/randysavagemisselizabeth-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was very sad to wake up to the news that Macho Man Randy Savage passed away last night.\u00a0 Savage had left the wrestling business years ago, gotten his life together and had remarried.\u00a0 He had a heart attack while driving and his jeep crashed into a tree.\u00a0 He was 58.<\/p>\n<p>Savage is practically the embodiment of Rock N Roll Wrestling in its heyday in the Eighties.\u00a0 Coming out to Pomp and Circumstance in glittery thousand dollar robes with his trademark husky voice, he was larger than life and a great entertainer in the ring.\u00a0 His year long title reign from Wrestlemania IV &#8211; V pretty much cemented him as part of pop culture alongside Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant.\u00a0 I think for lapsed wrestling fans who grew up watching WWF when they were kids, he is a pretty good example of the type of charismatic performer that is missing today.<\/p>\n<p>R.I.P\u00a0 Macho Man Randy Savage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"629\" height=\"472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pjCnm8IeoI0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very sad to wake up to the news that Macho Man Randy Savage passed away last night.\u00a0 Savage had left the wrestling business years ago, gotten his life together and had remarried.\u00a0 He had a heart attack while driving and his jeep crashed into a tree.\u00a0 He was 58. Savage is practically the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[903,93],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-macho-man-randy-savage","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}