{"id":523,"date":"2007-06-12T21:44:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T04:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2007\/06\/mr-wizard-died\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:29:12","slug":"mr-wizard-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/06\/12\/mr-wizard-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Wizard died."},"content":{"rendered":"

He actually had a real name, too. Don Herbert. I didn’t know that.<\/p>\n

I also didn’t know he had a show before Mr. Wizard’s World<\/em> on Nickelodeon, but he had a fourteen year run on another network back in the 50s, too.
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\nThere’s also a website — http:\/\/www.mrwizardstudios.com\/<\/a> — but it doesn’t seem to be working for me right now.<\/p>\n

I guess this<\/a> is supposed to be an obituary, or something. I didn’t think they were usually so long. Probably one of the better things you can say about a dead person is in there, though: he taught people to think.<\/p>\n

It’s a pity the lesson didn’t stick with everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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