{"id":2224,"date":"2015-08-01T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:49:20","slug":"rowdy-roddy-piper-has-left-the-coliseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rowdy&#8221; Roddy Piper has left the Coliseum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I remember<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roddy_Piper\" target=\"_self\"> him<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/ct-rowdy-roddy-piper-dead-20150731-story.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">WWE legend &#8216;Rowdy&#8217; Roddy Piper dies at 61<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c7b81c4e970b-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11188\" title=\"Roddy piper\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Piper and Hogan battled for years and headlined some of the biggest matches during the 1980s. Hogan and Mr. T beat Piper and Paul Orndorff on March 31, 1985, at the first WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Piper was a villain for the early portion of his career &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you read the whole CNN article, it seems he was actually a pretty nice guy, involved in some important charities. one of the few wrestlers to wear his wedding ring during matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember him. WWE legend &#8216;Rowdy&#8217; Roddy Piper dies at 61 Piper and Hogan battled for years and headlined some of the biggest matches during the 1980s. Hogan and Mr. T beat Piper and Paul Orndorff on March 31, 1985, at the first WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden. Piper was a villain for the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11189,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}