{"id":54,"date":"2005-05-23T20:13:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T00:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-05-23T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T00:13:41","slug":"rip-thurl-ravenscroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/rip-thurl-ravenscroft\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Thurl Ravenscroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<table Align=right>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tony.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/tony.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"133\" border=1\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of shills, but I loved Tony the Tiger even though I also didn&#8217;t care for the cereal he hawked. And I was probably responding mostly to Thurl Ravenscroft&#8217;s voice&#8211;so deep, so kind, so trustworthy-sounding. He not only sang with a group called the Mellomen; he was, himself, a mellow man. Or so he always sounded.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past thirty years, I&#8217;ve kept discovering that voice in new places&#8211;on TV, in movies, on records, and even in amusement parks. And since it showed up so often, over something like seventy years, I expect to keep being pleasantly surprised by it for a long time to come.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: Is Thurl Ravenscroft the single best name of all time? And does anyone know if his given name was, in fact, Thurl Ravenscroft?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of shills, but I loved Tony the Tiger even though I also didn&#8217;t care for the cereal he hawked. And I was probably responding mostly to Thurl Ravenscroft&#8217;s voice&#8211;so deep, so kind, so trustworthy-sounding. He not only sang with a group called the Mellomen; he was, himself, a mellow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/rip-thurl-ravenscroft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Thurl Ravenscroft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}