{"id":6132,"date":"2014-12-31T23:06:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T23:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2014-12-31T23:06:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T23:06:17","slug":"transitions-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/transitions-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who have passed on during 2014 whose life or works have influenced me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934- 2014), American poet<\/li>\n<li>Charles Barsotti (1933-2014), American cartoonist<\/li>\n<li>Sid Caesar (1922-2014), American comedian<\/li>\n<li>Bob Crewe (1930-2014), American songwriter<\/li>\n<li>Al Feldstein (1925-2014), American artist and editor of <em>Mad<\/em> magazine<\/li>\n<li>Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), South African writer<\/li>\n<li>Alexander\u00a0Grothendieck (1928-2014), French mathematician<\/li>\n<li>Stuart Hall (1932- 2014), British cultural theorist<\/li>\n<li>Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014), American actor<\/li>\n<li>Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923-2014), Polish soldier and politician<\/li>\n<li>Morris Lurie (1938-2014), Australian comic writer<\/li>\n<li>Rik Mayall (1955-2014), British actor and comedian<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2014\/02\/in-memory-of-fast-wit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Meale<\/a> (c. 1963-2014), Australian wit<\/li>\n<li>Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys) (1935-2014), Belgian-Australian political analyst<\/li>\n<li>Maximilian Schell (1930-2014), German actor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2010\/03\/mr-sculthorpe-please-call-your-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Sculthorpe<\/a> (1929-2014), Australian composer<\/li>\n<li>Pete Seeger (1919-2014), American folk singer<\/li>\n<li>Eduard Shevardnadze (1928-2014), Georgian politician<\/li>\n<li>Horace Silver (1928-2014), American jazz pianist<\/li>\n<li>Edward Gough Whitlam (1916-2014), Australian statesman<\/li>\n<li>Robin Williams (1951-2014), American comedian and actor<\/li>\n<li>Neville Wran (1926-2014), Australian politician.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s post is <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2014\/01\/transitions-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who have passed on during 2014 whose life or works have influenced me: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934- 2014), American poet Charles Barsotti (1933-2014), American cartoonist Sid Caesar (1922-2014), American comedian Bob Crewe (1930-2014), American songwriter Al Feldstein (1925-2014), American artist and editor of Mad magazine Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014), South African writer Alexander\u00a0Grothendieck (1928-2014), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits","category-poetry","p1","y2014","m12","d31","h23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}