{"id":5010,"date":"2018-10-16T13:37:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2018-10-16T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:37:54","slug":"rip-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2018\/10\/16\/rip-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened yesterday to read of the death of Paul Allen.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot claim to have known Paul well, but I met him a few times, and always enjoyed his company.\u00a0\u00a0 He had a house in Santa Fe, and when he was there, we would sometimes get together for a breakfast and talk about&#8230; well, all sorts of things.<\/p>\n<p>With great power comes great responsibility, Stan Lee once wrote.\u00a0 In the modern world, there is no power greater than wealth.\u00a0 Paul Allen used his great wealth for the benefit of his community, his country, and his planet.\u00a0\u00a0 He left the world a better place than he found it, and no more can be asked of any man.<\/p>\n<p>This was a kind man, a bright man, a profoundly <em>good<\/em> man.\u00a0\u00a0 He will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened yesterday to read of the death of Paul Allen. I cannot claim to have known Paul well, but I met him a few times, and always enjoyed his company.\u00a0\u00a0 He had a house in Santa Fe, and when he was there, we would sometimes get together for a breakfast and talk about&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[58],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}