{"id":110,"date":"2006-12-18T21:50:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T04:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=110"},"modified":"2006-12-18T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T04:50:32","slug":"rip-joe-barbera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Joe Barbera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Barbera, co-creator of some of the longest lasting cartoon series ever, died Monday in California.&nbsp; His longtime business partner, Bill Hanna died in 2001.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Co-Creator of such classics as Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, and The Jetsons, Joe Barbera started out as a banker.&nbsp; However his on-the-job doodling led to a stint first as a magazine writer and later as an animator.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>Except for the Flintstones, a cartoon that ran prime-time in the &#8217;60&#8217;s, Hanna-Barbera didn&#8217;t enjoy a great deal of success within the American network television hierarchy.&nbsp; But as The Jetsons took off in syndication, Joe Barbera quickly learned that syndication was the way to go.&nbsp; Scooby-doo continued in Syndication and on Cartoon Network, which purchased Hanna-Barbera through Turner Broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Barbera was the jokester of the Hanna-Barbera duo, and his slapstick comedy, simply for the sake of comedy, will be sorely missed today. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good bye, Joe Barbera.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Barbera, co-creator of some of the longest lasting cartoon series ever, died Monday in California.&nbsp; His longtime business partner, Bill Hanna died in 2001.&nbsp; Co-Creator of such classics as Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, and The Jetsons, Joe Barbera started out as a banker.&nbsp; However his on-the-job doodling led to a stint first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-ravings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}