{"id":15865,"date":"2017-04-25T06:53:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2017-04-25T06:58:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:58:31","slug":"obit-watch-april-25-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=15865","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: April 25, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn it all to hell and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/24\/books\/robert-pirsig-dead-wrote-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance.html?ref=todayspaper&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Robert M. Pirsig<\/a>, author of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2pvycIS\" target=\"_blank\">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/a><\/strong>, passed away yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14071\" target=\"_blank\">written before<\/a>, but sort of in passing, about <strong>Zen<\/strong>. It was a huge influence on me as a young man, and continues to be an influence on me today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/24\/business\/media\/kate-obeirne-dead-national-review-editor-columnist.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NYT<\/strong> obit for Kate O\u2019Beirne<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn it all to hell and Hong Kong. Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, passed away yesterday. I&#8217;ve written before, but sort of in passing, about Zen. It was a huge influence on me as a young man, and continues to be an influence on me today. NYT obit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865","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=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15867,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}