{"id":43,"date":"2010-12-21T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/popcultureroadtrip\/2010\/12\/jimmy-sullivan-rip.html"},"modified":"2010-12-21T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:25:23","slug":"jimmy-sullivan-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/popcultureroadtrip\/2010\/12\/jimmy-sullivan-rip.html","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Sullivan, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbindependent.com\/news\/opinion\/tn-hbi-1223-pipeline-20101221,0,7742390.story\">newspaper column today<\/a> on the one year anniversary of the death of Jimmy Sullivan. Special thanks to Kortney at<a href=\"http:\/\/deathbatnews.wordpress.com\/\"> deathbatnews.com<\/a> for helping me coordinate this special tribute to the Sullivan family.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photos will be included in the print edition of the paper, and until they are available in the on line version, I&#8217;ll share them here. They are generously provided by Jimmy&#8217;s lovely sister, Katie, and they&#8217;ll give you a sense of how special this family is &#8211; truly awesome people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>May this serve as a temporary shrine for Jimmy Sullivan fans all around the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"js1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/js1.jpg\" width=\"534\" height=\"328\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"js2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/js2.jpg\" width=\"372\" height=\"287\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"js3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/110\/import\/js3.jpg\" width=\"477\" height=\"315\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my newspaper column today on the one year anniversary of the death of Jimmy Sullivan. Special thanks to Kortney at deathbatnews.com for helping me coordinate this special tribute to the Sullivan family. Photos will be included in the print edition of the paper, and until they are available in the on line version,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jimmy Sullivan, RIP - The Pop Culture Road Trip<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/popcultureroadtrip\/2010\/12\/jimmy-sullivan-rip.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jimmy Sullivan, RIP - The Pop Culture Road Trip\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here is my newspaper column today on the one year anniversary of the death of Jimmy Sullivan. 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