{"id":215,"date":"2013-12-19T01:08:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-12-19T01:10:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:10:15","slug":"my-namesake-ronnie-biggs-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"My namesake Ronnie Biggs dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie Biggs was best known for his infamous British train heist in 1963, where he and his gang made off with about $50 million in today\u2019s currency.\u00a0 He was caught, but managed to escape prison, and lived out his days as a Brazilian playboy.\u00a0 He was featured in the Sex Pistols\u2019 quasi-documentary \u201cThe Great Rock and Roll Swindle\u201d.\u00a0 The Sex Pistols compared their band to a Rock and Roll Heist where, they too, made off with millions.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, my namesake, (Ronny)Biggs, is an obscure reference dating back to my 90s So-Cal punk days.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Ronnie Biggs, the Guardian has a good obit here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2013\/dec\/18\/ronnie-biggs-great-train-robber-dies-84\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2013\/dec\/18\/ronnie-biggs-great-train-robber-dies-84<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I expect all of you to be familiar with The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, especially if you\u2019re at all into music or pop culture.\u00a0 Truly a work of genius:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eizQ9l9Qu0A\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eizQ9l9Qu0A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ronnie Biggs, you will be missed.\u00a0 I doff my fedora to you, with outstretched index and middle fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie Biggs was best known for his infamous British train heist in 1963, where he and his gang made off with about $50 million in today\u2019s currency.\u00a0 He was caught, but managed to escape prison, and lived out his days as a Brazilian playboy.\u00a0 He was featured in the Sex Pistols\u2019 quasi-documentary \u201cThe Great Rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[110,109,107,105,106,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrbiggs.net\/ron\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}