{"id":1931,"date":"2008-03-01T16:06:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T21:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-sweet-gill-man\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T16:06:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T21:06:45","slug":"good-night-sweet-gill-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-sweet-gill-man","title":{"rendered":"Good night, sweet Gill Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Chapman, who played The Creature from the Black Lagoon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/01\/movies\/01chapman.html\" target=\"_blank\">died last week at the age of 79<\/a>. Condolences go out to Mrs. Creature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Creature-Black-Lagoon-Universal-Monsters\/dp\/1595820337\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/images\/gillman.jpg?resize=450%2C350\" alt=\"Ben Chapman, courtesy of Universal Pictures, via Photofest\" height=\"350\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Courtesy of Universal Pictures, via Photofest)\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Chapman, who played The Creature from the Black Lagoon, died last week at the age of 79. Condolences go out to Mrs. Creature. (Courtesy of Universal Pictures, via Photofest)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-v9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9816,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-180-leslie-stein","url_meta":{"origin":1931,"position":0},"title":"Episode 180 &#8211; Leslie Stein","author":"Gil","date":"August 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show #180: Leslie Stein \"I'm able to be what people want me to be when I'm behind the bar or playing music, but I'm not a performer by nature, so it's not an easy transition. 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