{"id":10737,"date":"2013-09-03T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10737"},"modified":"2013-09-03T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:33:20","slug":"obit-watch-september-3-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=10737","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: September 3, 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several sources, including SF Signal, are reporting the death yesterday of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2013\/09\/rip-frederik-pohl-1919-2013\/\">noted SF writer Frederik Pohl<\/a>. I hope to have more on this later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/02\/us\/paul-poberezny-pilot-who-founded-popular-fly-in-dies-at-91.html?ref=todayspaper\">Paul Poberezny<\/a>, founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/eaa.org\/\">Experimental Aircraft Association<\/a>, passed away on August 22nd, though the <strong>NYT<\/strong> didn&#8217;t get around to mentioning it until today. He was 91 years old, and his life &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/eaa.org\/paul\/\">spanned more than 70 years of flight at the controls of more than 500 different types of aircraft<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Damn. What a ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several sources, including SF Signal, are reporting the death yesterday of noted SF writer Frederik Pohl. I hope to have more on this later. Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association, passed away on August 22nd, though the NYT didn&#8217;t get around to mentioning it until today. He was 91 years old, and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-clippings","category-obits","category-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10738,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10737\/revisions\/10738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}