{"id":1206653,"date":"2023-11-27T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206653"},"modified":"2023-11-27T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T20:20:00","slug":"marc-thorpe-father-of-robot-wars-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206653","title":{"rendered":"Marc Thorpe, Father of Robot Wars, Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/425c2f7ce5fb70b2e5182519be6f12a1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marc Thorpe, the original creator of the famed remote-controlled bot battling competition Robot Wars and godfather of today\u2019s bot deathmatch scene, died this past Friday, Nov. 24, at the age of 77 due to complications from his long fight against Parkinson\u2019s disease. His death was officially <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/megan.thorpe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed<\/a> by his daughter\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/marc-thorpe-robot-wars-obit-battlebots-77-1851049646\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Gizmodo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/marc-thorpe-robot-wars-obit-battlebots-77-1851049646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marc Thorpe, Father of Robot Wars, Passes Away<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Thorpe, the original creator of the famed remote-controlled bot battling competition Robot Wars and godfather of today\u2019s bot deathmatch scene, died this past Friday, Nov. 24, at the age of 77 due to complications from his long fight against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,110],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1206653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-gizmodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}