{"id":55950,"date":"2025-03-20T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=55950"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:20:12","slug":"tragic-loss-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=55950","title":{"rendered":"TRAGIC LOSS. T&#8230;>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James Gregory, known as the \u201cFunniest Man in America,\u201d passed away on May 9 due to heart problems. His family announced his death, saying he \u201cbrought laughter and joy to countless lives\u201d and left a lasting impact on the comedy world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1946 in Lithonia, Georgia, James began working at his family\u2019s grocery store at age 11. After brief stints as a postman and in the US Marines, he spent 18 years in sales before starting his comedy career at 36 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James was cared for in his final days by his three nieces, Martha Anne, Mary Jane, and Candie, who lovingly referred to him as \u201cUncle Bubba.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Gregory, known as the \u201cFunniest Man in America,\u201d passed away on May 9 due to heart problems. His family announced his death, saying he \u201cbrought laughter&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55951,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55950\/revisions\/55951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}