{"id":2094,"date":"2010-11-01T13:30:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2010-11-01T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T17:30:02","slug":"tribute-theo-crampton-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/tribute-theo-crampton-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIBUTE: THEO CRAMPTON III"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>THEO CRAMPTON III, R.I.P.<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After spending most of October in New York, I just returned home to Los Angeles to very sad news. A lovely young man about whom I wrote in June, Theo Crampton, passed away on October 18<sup>th<\/sup>, way before his time. He was only 23. But he accomplished much in his short life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/theo.jpg\" title=\"theo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2104\" title=\"theo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/theo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Theo was the \u201cCake Designer To The Stars,\u201d including Patti LaBelle and Stevie Wonder. I had already booked him and his company, Powdered Sugar Cakes, to do my birthday cake in January, and was so looking forward to it. He told me that he began baking with his family when he was just a kid and knew by the age of eight that he wanted to be a baker. Pretty impressive to have an early dream and make it come true!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the link to my write-up of Theo\u2019s launch party, if you want to read the whole column: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/2010\/06\/15\/parties-powder-sugar-cakes-launch-party\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/2010\/06\/15\/parties-powder-sugar-cakes-launch-party\/<\/span><\/span><\/a>, but this is the most important excerpt: \u201cThe crowd was quite jovial all night and everyone seemed open to meeting new people. All that may have trickled down from Theo himself, who is just darling. He came around and shyly greeted us all, without standing on ceremony. I said, \u2018Wow, you look really young to be such a successful baker!\u2019 He answered, jokingly indignant, \u2018I\u2019m twenty-three!\u2019 That\u2019s what I meant by \u2018young!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/60720754.jpg\" title=\"60720754\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2095\" title=\"60720754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/60720754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>I still don&#8217;t know the exact details of his death, nor would they make me feel any better, but I was told that he had a rare heart disease which could have ended his life by the age of 5. He did more with the \u201cgifted\u201d eighteen years than most of us, so I hope that brings his family a modicum of peace. But I\u2019m still extremely sad that I won\u2019t get to see his shining face again on this level of life. I\u2019ve met few others as happy and positive as Theo Crampton III.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEO CRAMPTON III, R.I.P. &nbsp; After spending most of October in New York, I just returned home to Los Angeles to very sad news. A lovely young man about whom I wrote in June, Theo Crampton, passed away on October 18th, way before his time. He was only 23. But he accomplished much in his<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/tribute-theo-crampton-iii\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}