{"id":8038,"date":"2016-12-25T10:45:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=8038"},"modified":"2016-12-25T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T10:45:39","slug":"transitions-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/transitions-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who have passed on during 2016, whose life or works have influenced me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edward Albee (1928-2016), American playwright<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2016\/01\/arm-members\/\">Myrtle Berman<\/a> (1924-2016), South African political activist and resistance fighter<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Berrigan SJ (1921-2016), American priest and political activist<\/li>\n<li>Pierre Boulez (1925-2016), French composer and conductor<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Chitepo (1928-2016), Zimbabwean politician<\/li>\n<li>Harold Cohen (1928-2016), British-American artist and AI pioneer<\/li>\n<li>Ronnie Corbett (1930-2016), British comedian<\/li>\n<li>Umberto Eco (1932-2016), Italian writer<\/li>\n<li>Bob Ellis (1942-2016), Australian playwright and journalist<\/li>\n<li>Tom Hayden (1939-2016), American political activist<\/li>\n<li>Chip Heathcote (1931-2016), Australian statistician<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Hutcherson (1941-2016), American vibraphonist<\/li>\n<li>Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016), British composer<\/li>\n<li>Diana Mitchell (1932-2016), Zimbabwean historian<\/li>\n<li>Yukio Ninagawa (1935-2016), Japanese theatre director<\/li>\n<li>John Satterthwaite (1928-2016), Australian engineer and Bishop<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Schelling (1921-2016), American game theorist and strategist<\/li>\n<li>Garry Shandling (1949-2016), American comedian<\/li>\n<li>Lois Weisberg (1925-2016), Chicagoan connector<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/06\/achilles-and-the-tortoise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Yessenin-Volpin<\/a>\u00a0 (1924-2016),\u00a0 Russian-American poet, mathematician and dissident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who have passed on during 2016, whose life or works have influenced me: Edward Albee (1928-2016), American playwright Myrtle Berman (1924-2016), South African political activist and resistance fighter Daniel Berrigan SJ (1921-2016), American priest and political activist Pierre Boulez (1925-2016), French composer and conductor Victoria Chitepo (1928-2016), Zimbabwean politician Harold Cohen (1928-2016), British-American artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits","category-transitions","p1","y2016","m12","d25","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038","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=8038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}