{"id":10014,"date":"2018-08-11T07:42:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T11:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/?p=10014"},"modified":"2018-08-11T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T20:28:24","slug":"barry-crimmins-a-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2018\/08\/11\/barry-crimmins-a-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Crimmins &#8211; A Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Crimmins made his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, and as you probably know, he, unfortunately, died of cancer this year. In celebration of his life, a number of comedians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/190993168411498\/\">will be performing a benefit show in his honor<\/a> at the New Town Theatre in Edinburgh on Thursday, 8\/16. Proceeds are being donated to Helen Crimmins (Barry&#8217;s widow) to cover the costs of her cancer treatment.  Sadly, tickets are apparently not selling well. So if you&#8217;re going to be in Edinburgh this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outstandingtickets.com\/show\/557\/barry_crimmins_-_a_celebration_\">you can book tickets for the show &#8211; a bargain at \u00a310, which is like $13 &#8211; here<\/a>. I can&#8217;t make it to Scotland, but I booked a ticket anyway. So, you know, you could so that if you wanted. Though it&#8217;d be better to have a full house rather than a bunch of empty seats. I only have two regrets &#8211; first, that it isn&#8217;t like the &#8220;old days&#8221; when lots of people from all over the world came and at least lurked here (probably would have been able to drum up a few ticket sales), and second, that Barry is gone while Henry Kissinger still draws breath. If that&#8217;s not a clear sign that there either is no god or that if there is, god&#8217;s a prick, I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Crimmins made his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, and as you probably know, he, unfortunately, died of cancer this year. In celebration of his life, a number of comedians will be performing a benefit show in his honor at the New Town Theatre in Edinburgh on Thursday, 8\/16. Proceeds are being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10016,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions\/10016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}