{"id":7251,"date":"2015-12-27T14:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T14:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2015-12-27T14:10:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T14:10:50","slug":"transitions-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/transitions-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who have passed on during 2015, whose life or works have influenced me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yogi Berra (1925-2015), American baseball player<\/li>\n<li>Ornette Coleman (1930-2015), American jazz musician<\/li>\n<li>Robert Conquest (1917-2015), British kremlinologist<\/li>\n<li>Malcolm Fraser (1930-2015), Australian politician<\/li>\n<li>Jaako Hintikka (1929-2015), Finnish philosopher and logician<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Jardine (1944-2015), British historian<\/li>\n<li>Joan Kirner (1938-2015), Australian politician, aka &#8220;Mother Russia&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Kurt Masur (1927-2015), East German conductor<\/li>\n<li>John Forbes Nash (1928-2015), American mathematician<\/li>\n<li>Boris Nemtsov (1959-2015), Russian politician<\/li>\n<li>Oliver Sacks (1933-2015), British-American neurologist and writer<\/li>\n<li>Gunter Schabowski (1929-2015), East German politician<\/li>\n<li>Alex Schalck-Golodkowski (1932-2015), East German politician<\/li>\n<li>Gunther Schuller (1925-2015), American composer and musician (and French horn player on Miles Davis&#8217; 1959 album, <em>Porgy and Bess<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Brian Stewart (1922-2015), British intelligence agent.<\/li>\n<li>Ward Swingle (1927-2015), American singer and jazz musician.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s post is <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2014\/12\/transitions-2014\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who have passed on during 2015, whose life or works have influenced me: Yogi Berra (1925-2015), American baseball player Ornette Coleman (1930-2015), American jazz musician Robert Conquest (1917-2015), British kremlinologist Malcolm Fraser (1930-2015), Australian politician Jaako Hintikka (1929-2015), Finnish philosopher and logician Lisa Jardine (1944-2015), British historian Joan Kirner (1938-2015), Australian politician, aka &#8220;Mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,34,38,39,56,58,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-heroes","category-intelligence-and-espionage","category-jazz","category-music","category-obits","category-politics","p1","y2015","m12","d27","h14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","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=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}