{"id":17295,"date":"2018-05-01T06:48:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T11:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17295"},"modified":"2018-05-01T06:48:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T11:48:19","slug":"obit-watch-may-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=17295","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 1, 2018."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted Texas jeweler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austin360.com\/lifestyles\/texas-jewelry-icon-james-avery-dead-according-company\/VSlkhmMj3x2VPkqQxXggqN\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Avery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I lack the proper chromosomes to be able to fully appreciate James Avery jewelry, though that hasn&#8217;t stopped me from purchasing some as gifts for other people. Not too terribly long ago, a bunch of us went to the James Avery world headquarters and museum (which is up near Kerrville), and I was kind of impressed and fascinated by the process and the craftsmanship involved. It isn&#8217;t the sort of thing I can (or want to) do myself, but like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorlockP\/status\/989622545346367488\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TJIC&#8217;s farm book<\/a>, it&#8217;s interesting to watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planeandpilotmag.com\/article\/aviation-legend-richard-l-collins-passes-away\/?utm_source=Mailings&#038;utm_campaign=Aviation+Journalist+Passes+Away++++&#038;utm_medium=email\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard L. Collins<\/a>, noted aviation writer. My dad was a private pilot, and had a subscription to <strong>Flying<\/strong> magazine as far back as I can remember. I grew up reading Collins and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_Baxter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Baxter<\/a> and the other writers in that stable.<\/p>\n<p>(Hattip: RoadRich.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted Texas jeweler James Avery. I lack the proper chromosomes to be able to fully appreciate James Avery jewelry, though that hasn&#8217;t stopped me from purchasing some as gifts for other people. Not too terribly long ago, a bunch of us went to the James Avery world headquarters and museum (which is up near Kerrville), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits","category-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17295","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=17295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17296,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17295\/revisions\/17296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}