{"id":8644,"date":"2017-07-10T23:20:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T06:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2017-07-10T23:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T06:20:32","slug":"rip-stephen-furst-aka-flounder-of-animal-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=8644","title":{"rendered":"RIP:  Stephen Furst, aka Flounder of Animal House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-StephenFurst.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-StephenFurst.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-StephenFurst-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-StephenFurst-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-StephenFurst-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Furst<\/strong>, the actor that played <strong>Kent &#8220;Flounder&#8221; Dorfman<\/strong> in the iconic comedy film <strong>National Lampoon&#8217;s Animal House<\/strong>, passed away on June 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Our friend + LOUIE advisor <strong>Stretch Riedle<\/strong> wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He stopped flopping around and went to the great fishing hole in the sky.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rest in peace, Flounder!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-action-figure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"471\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-action-figure.png 572w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-action-figure-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-action-figure-150x124.png 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flounder-action-figure-400x329.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4YJJddMvO98?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>(Yes, this is from the Italian version of Animal House. You&#8217;re welcome!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference Links<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Furst\">Wikipedia on Stephen Furst<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2017\/06\/18\/stephen-furst-flounder-in-animal-house-dies-at-63\/102988608\/\">USA Obit on Stephen Furst<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Furst, the actor that played Kent &#8220;Flounder&#8221; Dorfman in the iconic comedy film National Lampoon&#8217;s Animal House, passed away on June 16, 2017 Our friend + LOUIE advisor Stretch Riedle wrote:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-louie-universe","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8650,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}