{"id":116,"date":"2013-06-04T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/04\/rip-deacon-jones"},"modified":"2013-06-04T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:24:00","slug":"rip-deacon-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"RIP, \u2018Deacon\u2019 Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Once in a generation or two, athletes come along who break certain molds.<\/p>\n<p>David \u201cDeacon\u201d Jones broke one of them when he emerged as a member of the Los Angeles Rams\u2019s \u201cFearsome Foursome\u201d defensive line. Jones, who has died at age 74, wasn\u2019t just a great football player. He almost always had something interesting to say.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/nfl\/story\/david-deacon-jones-dies-age-74-football-hall-of-famer-060313\" href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/nfl\/story\/david-deacon-jones-dies-age-74-football-hall-of-famer-060313\">http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/nfl\/story\/david-deacon-jones-dies-age-74-football-hall-of-famer-060313<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t speak to us in football cliches. He was entertaining, occasionally provocative and insightful in whatever topic was on his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Deacon was one-fourth of a line that featured the likes of Roosevelt Grier, Merlin Olsen and Lamar Lundy. He wasn\u2019t overly huge, not by today\u2019s standards. Then again, none of those guys really measured up to today\u2019s monstrous proportions. But they were smart, savvy and agile defensive performers. Rosey Grier is the last one still living.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a link today about how Twitter is full of comments on Jones\u2019s death. The tweets are full of sadness. I\u2019m sad, too, but not because his death marked some kind of tragedy. He lived a full life and while Deacon was among us, he delivered plenty of smiles and joy.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, Deacon Jones.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a generation or two, athletes come along who break certain molds. David \u201cDeacon\u201d Jones broke one of them when he emerged as a member of the Los Angeles Rams\u2019s \u201cFearsome Foursome\u201d defensive line. Jones, who has died at age 74, wasn\u2019t just a great football player. He almost always had something interesting to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP, \u2018Deacon\u2019 Jones<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}