{"id":11002,"date":"2008-07-28T18:53:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/28\/another-sad-passing\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T18:53:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:53:28","slug":"another-sad-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/28\/another-sad-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Another sad passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my hero&#8217;s, Randy Pausch, passed today. His anecdote about brick walls is brilliant:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;. . . brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>A recent post in New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/25\/last-lecture-professor-randy-pausch-dies-at-47\/index.html?hp\">includes a brief bio about Randy<\/a>. The USA Today has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2008-07-25-pausch-obit_N.htm\">an obituary.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/jaysenlesage.com\">Jaysen<\/a> for alerting me and commenting on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/28\/brick-wall\/\">earlier entry on my site. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my hero&#8217;s, Randy Pausch, passed today. His anecdote about brick walls is brilliant: &#8220;. . . brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A recent post in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}