{"id":6413,"date":"2012-10-06T23:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T06:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2012-10-06T23:28:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T06:28:06","slug":"an-icon-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6413","title":{"rendered":"An Icon Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5247\" title=\"sheriffjohn\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sheriffjohn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"214\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>An icon of my childhood has died: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-sheriff-john-rovick-20121007,0,30075,full.story\">&#8220;Sheriff&#8221; John Rovick has died at the age of 93<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the era of children&#8217;s television hosts, Sheriff John was one of the most beloved in Los Angeles. His &#8220;Lunch Brigade&#8221; was a staple for kids like me growing up. We grew up on his songs, his cartoons, his morals, and his ideals&#8230; and of course, Farmer John Hot Dogs. We preferred the Birthday Cake Polka (&#8220;Put another candle on my birthday cake&#8221;) to any other birthday song.<\/p>\n<p>Our motto, after all, was John&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laugh and be happy and the world will laugh with you<br \/>\nWhen people see you smiling they can&#8217;t help smiling too<br \/>\nWhen you look out the window to a dark and gloomy day<br \/>\nBreak out a smile and in a while the gloom will go away<br \/>\nSo laugh and be happy with a merry melody<br \/>\nA song will make a hat rack look like a Christmas tree<br \/>\nGet rid of worry in a hurry, chase the blues away<br \/>\nJust laugh and be happy all the live&#8230;. long&#8230;.. day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rest in peace, Sheriff John. You taught a generation well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An icon of my childhood has died: &#8220;Sheriff&#8221; John Rovick has died at the age of 93. Back in the era of children&#8217;s television hosts, Sheriff John was one of the most beloved in Los Angeles. His &#8220;Lunch Brigade&#8221; was a staple for kids like me growing up. We grew up on his songs, his <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6413\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-6413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-childrens-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}