{"id":282,"date":"2017-11-30T19:19:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T00:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2017-11-30T19:19:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T00:19:22","slug":"r-i-p-dr-jerry-pournelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/2017113019\/r-i-p-dr-jerry-pournelle","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Dr. Jerry Pournelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was deeply saddened tonight to find that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/\">Dr. Jerry Pournelle<\/a> had passed away, the world has lost a truly great mind.\u00a0 His science fiction captured my imagination.\u00a0 His Byte columns entertained and informed me.\u00a0 (He would have endorsed my wCapLock utility for making the CapsLock key work like a typewriter does if I&#8217;d gotten the marketing together, IIRC &#8211; my bad.)\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pournelle_chart\">Pournelle political axes<\/a> is a brilliant insight, one that I frequently cite from my perspective in the top left corner.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to miss the man I&#8217;d hoped to meet one day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorry for everyone who has suffered from this loss.<\/p>\n<div id=\"spreadx\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&url=https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/2017113019\/r-i-p-dr-jerry-pournelle\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/spreadx\/images\/digg.gif\" alt=\"Digg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/2017113019\/r-i-p-dr-jerry-pournelle\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/spreadx\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/2017113019\/r-i-p-dr-jerry-pournelle&title=R.I.P.+Dr.+Jerry+Pournelle\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/spreadx\/images\/stumble.gif\" alt=\"StumbleUpon\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/faves?add=https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/2017113019\/r-i-p-dr-jerry-pournelle\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/spreadx\/images\/technorati.gif\" alt=\"Technorati\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/2017113019\/r-i-p-dr-jerry-pournelle&title=R.I.P.+Dr.+Jerry+Pournelle\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/spreadx\/images\/delicious.gif\" alt=\"Deli.cio.us\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was deeply saddened tonight to find that Dr. Jerry Pournelle had passed away, the world has lost a truly great mind.\u00a0 His science fiction captured my imagination.\u00a0 His Byte columns entertained and informed me.\u00a0 (He would have endorsed my wCapLock utility for making the CapsLock key work like a typewriter does if I&#8217;d gotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfredk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}