{"id":2252,"date":"2010-10-19T09:34:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:53:32","slug":"how-harvey-pekar-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/19\/how-harvey-pekar-died\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW HARVEY PEKAR DIED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Comic book writer<\/strong><\/span> Harvey Pekar died from an &#8220;accidental&#8221; overdose of anti-depressants, the Cuyahoga (Cleveland) County coroner ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Powell Caesar, the coroner&#8217;s spokesman, said Pekar died from &#8220;acute intoxication via ingesting fluoxetine [Prozac] and bupropion [Wellbutrin].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Powell continued, &#8220;The death was accidental. Ingestion was accidental.\u00a0 This case is closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The autopsy and toxicology analyses were completed last week.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey died July 12 in his bedroom in Cleveland Heights.<\/p>\n<p>I contacted the coroner&#8217;s office (and talked to Powell Caesar) because I hadn&#8217;t heard, or read, how Harvey died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic book writer Harvey Pekar died from an &#8220;accidental&#8221; overdose of anti-depressants, the Cuyahoga (Cleveland) County coroner ruled. Powell Caesar, the coroner&#8217;s spokesman, said Pekar died from &#8220;acute intoxication via ingesting fluoxetine [Prozac] and bupropion [Wellbutrin].&#8221; Powell continued, &#8220;The death was accidental. Ingestion was accidental.\u00a0 This case is closed.&#8221; The autopsy and toxicology analyses were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pekar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}