{"id":134568,"date":"2026-03-10T16:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134568\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:05:09","slug":"pierre-robert-gets-memorial-in-philadelphias-rittenhouse-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134568\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Robert gets memorial in Philadelphia&#8217;s Rittenhouse Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The late radio DJ Pierre Robert will be memorialized with a bench in Rittenhouse Square, a favorite spot of the beloved Philadelphia figure.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Robert <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/pierre-robert-dj-wmmr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died unexpectedly last October<\/a>. Foul play was ruled out, but the cause was never revealed.\n<\/p>\n<p>Three days before his passing, Robert posted a selfie photo of himself relaxing with a cup of coffee and reading a novel on a bench, with the caption: \u201cSunday afternoon in Philly in my beloved Rittenhouse Square, with a great book, a cup of La Colombe, watching the world lazily drift by\u2026 pretty close to perfection.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>The book he was reading that day is anything but lazy and drifting, befitting the taste of a rock DJ: Carl Hiaasen\u2019s best-selling \u201cFever Beach\u201d (2025) is a farcical thriller that the New York Times described as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/12\/books\/review\/carl-hiaasen-fever-beach.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cbottomless margarita\u201d<\/a> set in Florida populated by corrupt politicians, \u201cgeriatric alcoholic philanthropists\u201d and a right-wing hate group operating out of a sex toy distribution company.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,25551,13511],"class_list":{"0":"post-134568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-rittenhouse-square","12":"tag-wmmr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}