{"id":1122,"date":"2025-08-02T20:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/?page_id=1122"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T03:46:24","slug":"celebrity-death-watch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/celebrity-death-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Death Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<p><iframe style=\"height: 80rem;\" src=\"\/Zombie-BBQ\/Celebs\/celebstatus.html\" width=\"100%\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>How Do I Add A Celeb?<\/h2>\n<p>To add your favorite celebrity, post a comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How Did This Come About?<\/h2>\n<p>Right after Hulk Hogan died, this started as a curiosity, to have a command which checks wikipedia to see whether a given celebrity is currently deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The original command outputs &#8216;1&#8217; if the celebrity is deceased, or &#8216;0&#8217; if not.<\/p>\n<p>I became completely obsessed with this idea, and spent way too much time on it.<\/p>\n<p>This mutated in to a full-fledged script that parses the input and formats the output based on the search result.<\/p>\n<p>This mutated in to a second script which does the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parses a text file containing a list of celebrities<\/li>\n<li>For each celebrity, it determines IF a wikepedia page exists<\/li>\n<li>IF the page exists, it checks to see if the celeb is alive or dead<\/li>\n<li>Then builds a HTML table based on the result<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a final burst of obsession, I converted the entire thing to CSS-based styles using a static stylesheet.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have this page uploaded to my hosting provider and running every day at 5 AM central time.<\/p>\n<p>Obsession is a weird thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\u00a0 How Do I Add A Celeb? To add your favorite celebrity, post a comment. &nbsp; How Did This Come About? Right after Hulk Hogan died, this started as a curiosity, to have a command which checks wikipedia to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/celebrity-death-watch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1122\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiebbq.biz\/Zombie-BBQ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}