{"id":46954,"date":"2026-01-23T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=46954"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:46:08","slug":"rip-uncle-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/01\/23\/rip-uncle-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Uncle Floyd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Uncle Floyd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/2538568527\/in\/photolist-4SjPYT-HKH4iT-69mDzs\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/3017\/2538568527_7ab08cecc3_z.jpg?resize=640%2C448&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Uncle Floyd\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>TV personality Floyd Vivino aka Uncle Floyd has passed away.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Uncle Floyd's Gazette\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/3376344456\/in\/photolist-4SjPYT-HKH4iT-69mDzs\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/3658\/3376344456_5fc06f5961_z.jpg?resize=511%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Uncle Floyd's Gazette\" width=\"511\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV personality Floyd Vivino aka Uncle Floyd has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-cdk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18362,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/18\/self-portrait-circa-1982\/","url_meta":{"origin":46954,"position":0},"title":"Self-Portrait Circa 1982","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors were required to take a minor course in photography. 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