{"id":11653,"date":"2014-01-15T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2014-01-15T06:43:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T12:43:46","slug":"obit-watch-january-15-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11653","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 15, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12156\">Neal Barrett, Jr.<\/a>, one of the great Texas SF writers.<\/p>\n<p>Madeline Arakawa Gins, of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1766\">Arakawa and Gins<\/a> fame.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/13\/arts\/design\/madeline-arakawa-gins-visionary-architect-dies-at-72.html?ref=todayspaper\">Their work was underpinned by a philosophy they called Reversible Destiny. Its chief tenet, as the catalog of a 1997 joint exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo put it, was, \u201cReversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gins was 72. Arakawa passed away in 2010 at the age of 73.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: the <strong>Statesman<\/strong> published an obituary for Mr. Barrett. Bad news: it is behind the paywall and thus unlinkable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Barrett, Jr., one of the great Texas SF writers. Madeline Arakawa Gins, of Arakawa and Gins fame. Their work was underpinned by a philosophy they called Reversible Destiny. Its chief tenet, as the catalog of a 1997 joint exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo put it, was, \u201cReversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,4,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-clippings","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","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=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11655,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions\/11655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}