{"id":33576,"date":"2020-01-22T06:47:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T11:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=33576"},"modified":"2020-01-22T07:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:26:15","slug":"r-i-p-gene-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/01\/22\/r-i-p-gene-london\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Gene London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Gene London\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/19876285042\/in\/photolist-whpa4G\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/520\/19876285042_f1baf052d7_c.jpg?resize=623%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gene London\" width=\"623\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Philadelphia television legend Gene London has passed away. I had the pleasure of meeting Gene back in 2015 at The Kimmel Center. Read about it <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/07\/21\/gene-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia television legend Gene London has passed away. I had the pleasure of meeting Gene back in 2015 at The Kimmel Center. Read about it here.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3630,4844,3669,186],"class_list":["post-33576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia","tag-gene-london","tag-kids-show-host","tag-philadelphia","tag-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-8Jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19296,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/07\/23\/drake-under-glass\/","url_meta":{"origin":33576,"position":0},"title":"Drake Under Glass","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"July 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The fabulous Drake shot from the interior of The Kimmel Center of the Performing Arts at Broad and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia. 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