{"id":36329,"date":"2013-06-20T09:31:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36329"},"modified":"2013-06-20T09:33:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:33:47","slug":"james-gandolfini-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36329","title":{"rendered":"James Gandolfini &#8211; RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you hoping for a \u201cSopranos\u201d revival \u2013 bad news.\u00a0 James Gandolfino, the actor who played Tony Soprano, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2013\/06\/20\/actor-james-gandolfini-sopranos-dies-at-51\/\">has died<\/a>.\u00a0 He was in Italy on vacation and a apparently had a massive heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Gandolfini was not a veteran (his father was, and earned the Purple Heart in World War II).\u00a0 However, unlike many in the entertainment business he also doesn\u2019t seem to have been anti-military.\u00a0 After the Sopranos, Gandolfini produced two acclaimed military documentaries:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alive-Day-Memories-Home-Iraq\/product-reviews\/B000UPGQIA\/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1\">Alive Day Memories<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wartorn-1861-2010-Jon-Alpert\/product-reviews\/B004MQ6VRE\/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1\">Wartorn 1861-2010<\/a>.\u00a0 The former focused on 10 veterans returning from Iraq with serious injuries and their recovery (and, obviously, their struggles while recovering).\u00a0\u00a0 The latter focused on PTSD among US soldiers \u2013 from the Civil War to today.\u00a0 Both documentaries appear to have been evenhanded, apolitical studies of their subject.\u00a0 (Disclaimer:\u00a0 I haven\u2019t seen either, so I\u2019m basing the above on published reviews.)<\/p>\n<p>RIP, James Gandolfini.\u00a0 Another who ended up \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2013\/06\/20\/actor-james-gandolfini-sopranos-dies-at-51\/\">Done Too Soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you hoping for a \u201cSopranos\u201d revival \u2013 bad news.\u00a0 James Gandolfino, the actor &hellip; <a title=\"James Gandolfini &#8211; RIP\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36329\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Gandolfini &#8211; RIP<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}