{"id":8200,"date":"2017-12-25T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T11:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=8200"},"modified":"2017-12-25T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T11:07:33","slug":"transitions-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/transitions-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who have passed on during 2017, whose life or works have influenced me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenneth Arrow (1921-2017), American economist<\/li>\n<li>John Berger (1926-2017), British writer and art critic<\/li>\n<li>Chuck Berry (1926-2017), American musician<\/li>\n<li>John Clarke (1948-2017), New Zealand &amp; Australian comedian<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2017\/04\/vale-john-fieldsend-cj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Charles Rowell Fieldsend<\/a>\u00a0CJ (1921-2017), Zimbabwean Chief Justice<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Fodor (1935-2017), American philosopher<\/li>\n<li>Joel Goodman Joffe (1932-2017), South African lawyer and defender of Nelson Mandela at Rivonia trial<\/li>\n<li>Ahmed Kathrada (1929-2017), South African democracy activist and political prisoner<\/li>\n<li>Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Chinese writer and democracy activist<\/li>\n<li>Peter Luck (1944-2017), Australian TV journalist<\/li>\n<li>Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017), Iranian &amp; American mathematician<\/li>\n<li>Rory\u00a0O&#8217;Donoghue (\u201cThin Arthur\u201d, \u201cFlash Nick from Jindavick\u201d) (1949-2017), Australian comedian<\/li>\n<li>Josh Parsons (1973-2017), New Zealand philosopher<\/li>\n<li>Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017), American logician and taoist<\/li>\n<li>Timothy Stamps (1936-2017), Zimbabwean doctor and Minister for Health (1986-2002)<\/li>\n<li>Herman Toivo ya Toivo (1924-2017), Namibian freedom fighter and politician<\/li>\n<li>Tony Vinson (1935-2017), Australian sociologist<\/li>\n<li>Vladimir Voevodsky (1966-2017), Russian &amp; American mathematician<\/li>\n<li>Heathcote Williams (1941-2017), British poet, writer, playwright, actor<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Yankelovich (1924-2017), American pollster and market researcher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Past editions of Transitions can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?s=Transitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who have passed on during 2017, whose life or works have influenced me: Kenneth Arrow (1921-2017), American economist John Berger (1926-2017), British writer and art critic Chuck Berry (1926-2017), American musician John Clarke (1948-2017), New Zealand &amp; Australian comedian John Charles Rowell Fieldsend\u00a0CJ (1921-2017), Zimbabwean Chief Justice Jerry Fodor (1935-2017), American philosopher Joel Goodman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,58,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-obits","category-transitions","p1","y2017","m12","d25","h11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200","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=8200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}