{"id":10743,"date":"2012-03-09T21:35:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T21:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/03\/09\/peter-bergman-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T21:35:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T21:35:34","slug":"peter-bergman-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/peter-bergman-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Bergman is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;. The car stopped on a dime.  Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Rococco&#8217;s Pocket&#8230;.&#8221; and other great moments.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know Firesign Theater, then a) your soul is empty and b) you won&#8217;t know who Peter Bergman is\/was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousminds.net\/comments\/farewell_dear_friend_peter_bergman_1939_2012\">Here&#8217;s a post by a friend of his. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now, go get and ingest some hallucinatory substances and listen, in no particular order, to the following: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0026OIBNG\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0026OIBNG\">How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You&#8217;re<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0026OIBNG\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00137ZQ58\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00137ZQ58\">This Side<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00137ZQ58\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003W77SHG\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B003W77SHG\">Don&#8217;t Crush That Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B003W77SHG\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006BNDP\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00006BNDP\">Everything You Know Is Wrong<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00006BNDP\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0012GN3UA\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0012GN3UA\">Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0012GN3UA\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001EOQV5Y\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B001EOQV5Y\">Firesign Theatre&#8217;s Box of Danger<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B001EOQV5Y\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and misplaced oxford comma <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00138CZJW\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00138CZJW\">I Think We&#8217;re All Bozos On This Bus<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00138CZJW\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.  If you were a faster reader, you&#8217;d be done with this blog post by now.<\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip, Claudia Sawyer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/embed\/Firesign_Theatre_Podcasting_003\" width=\"500\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;. The car stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Rococco&#8217;s Pocket&#8230;.&#8221; and other great moments. If you don&#8217;t know Firesign Theater, then a) your soul is empty and b) you won&#8217;t know who Peter Bergman is\/was. Here&#8217;s a post by a friend of his. And now, go get and ingest some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/peter-bergman-is-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter Bergman is Dead<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Nh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}