{"id":4249,"date":"2013-08-19T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2013-08-19T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:58:06","slug":"remembering-a-great-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/remembering-a-great-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a great man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willy Wilson passed away on Saturday night. He was a great friend and supporter of Ragtag Cinema in all its facets. Not only was he the voice of our showtimes line from 2000\u20132008 and the narrator of our 2012 <a title=\"Once upon a time...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hi6AKCIN3Bo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital-conversion video<\/a> (see Willy at the end), he was the designer and co-creator of the copper Tatlin sculpture above our box office, and co-creator of David Wilson, Ragtag's co-founder.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Willy was a prime mover in buying and investing in the Hittsville building. <a title=\"Willy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/support\/donors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Look for him in this photo<\/a>, on Paul's right, in the middle of Hittsville, before construction began.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>From all your friends at Ragtag Cinema, True\/False, Uprise Bakery, 9th Street Video, and Hitt Records,<\/div>\n<div>thank you, Willy Wilson. You're already missed.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Come celebrate Willy's life at <a title=\"barn directions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maplewoodbarn.com\/contact\/map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maplewood Barn Theatre<\/a> this Wednesday at 11am. Please dress for the weather.<\/div>\n<div>In lieu of flowers, donations to the Willy Wilson Scholarship Fund should be sent c\/o Maplewood Barn Theatre, P.O. Box 1704, Columbia, MO, 65205.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4251\" alt=\"WillyWilson copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/WillyWilson-copy-700x923.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"858\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willy Wilson passed away on Saturday night. He was a great friend and supporter of Ragtag Cinema in all its facets. Not only was he the voice of our showtimes line from 2000\u20132008 and the narrator of our 2012 digital-conversion video (see Willy at the end), he was the designer and co-creator of the copper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}