{"id":195973,"date":"2008-06-02T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/rememberance-steve-gilliard\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T21:31:00","slug":"rememberance-steve-gilliard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/02\/rememberance-steve-gilliard\/","title":{"rendered":"Rememberance: Steve Gilliard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupnewsblog.net\/\">Group News Blog<\/a> have a remembrance far better than I could write.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a year since he died, and I miss him.<\/p>\n<p>He was a brilliant polemicist and had an encyclopedic knowledge history, which was why he was spot on in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>I had always thought that if I were to run for office, I would want him, Paul T. Riddell, and Alexei Sayle to be my speech writers.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I would never be elected dog-catcher in the US.  Outraged truth telling does not net one votes.<\/p>\n<p>I miss him a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Group News Blog have a remembrance far better than I could write. It&#8217;s been a year since he died, and I miss him. He was a brilliant polemicist and had an encyclopedic knowledge history, which was why he was spot on in Iraq. I had always thought that if I were to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}