{"id":13321,"date":"2013-06-07T22:54:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T03:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=13321"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:30:40","slug":"rest-in-peace-ricky-brandly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/06\/07\/rest-in-peace-ricky-brandly\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Ricky Brandly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rick Brandly – photo by Dan Love<\/p><\/div>\n

Rick Brandly was taken off of life support tonight at 5:20PM.<\/p>\n

Rest in peace, big guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Brandly was taken off of life support tonight at 5:20PM. Rest in peace, big guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,104],"tags":[2615,2616,231,2618,2617],"class_list":["post-13321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia","tag-ricky-brandly","tag-adamsgraphics","tag-dan-love","tag-prepress","tag-rick-brandly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3sR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13313,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/06\/06\/ricky-brandly\/","url_meta":{"origin":13321,"position":0},"title":"Ricky Brandly","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you know Ricky Brandly? 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