{"id":11687,"date":"2014-01-21T06:47:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11687"},"modified":"2014-01-21T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:08:08","slug":"obit-watch-january-21-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11687","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 21, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-john-dobson-20140119,0,6483430.story\">John Dobson<\/a>, inventor of the Dobsonian telescope design.<\/p>\n<p>(The <strong>LAT<\/strong> obit is nice, but it doesn&#8217;t really give a sense of what the Dobsonian design is or how it works. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dobsonian_telescope\">the Wikipedia entry<\/a>, if you&#8217;re curious.)<\/p>\n<p>(And Dobson sounds like someone I would have very much liked to have had coffee with. A monk who allegedly got kicked out of the monastery because of his obsession with observational astronomy and telescope building? I bet he&#8217;d have been a lot of fun to talk to.)<\/p>\n<p>Noted classical conductor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/21\/arts\/music\/claudio-abbado-italian-conductor-dies-at-80.html?hpw&#038;rref=obituaries\">Claudio Abbado<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/la-me-claudio-abbado-20140121,0,4992387,full.story\">LAT<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: Sorry, just ran across this one while reading the local news. Noted Texas songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsradioklbj.com\/News\/Story.aspx?ID=2113796\">Steven Fromholz passed away on Sunday<\/a>. Various reports indicate that he died in a hunting accident:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/state\/headlines\/20140120-texas-singer-songwriter-steven-fromholz-dies-in-hunting-accident.ece\">&#8230;Fromholz, who lives in the area, and his girlfriend were going to hunt feral hogs. A rifle was in a case but unzipped at the bottom. The gun was being transferred from one vehicle to another.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/state\/headlines\/20140120-texas-singer-songwriter-steven-fromholz-dies-in-hunting-accident.ece\">Ariste says Fromholz grabbed the handle, the gun partly fell, hit the ground and discharged.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/weblogs\/austin-music-source\/2014\/jan\/19\/steven-fromholz-ground-breaking-austin-songwriter-\/\">The <strong>Stateman<\/strong> reports it was a shotgun, not a rifle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EtA2: Added link to non-paywalled <strong>Statesman<\/strong> blog entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Dobson, inventor of the Dobsonian telescope design. (The LAT obit is nice, but it doesn&#8217;t really give a sense of what the Dobsonian design is or how it works. Here&#8217;s the Wikipedia entry, if you&#8217;re curious.) (And Dobson sounds like someone I would have very much liked to have had coffee with. A monk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,3,40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-geek","category-guns","category-music","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687","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=11687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11691,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions\/11691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}