{"id":197593,"date":"2008-01-23T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/a-friend-of-mine-died-today\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T03:15:00","slug":"a-friend-of-mine-died-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/a-friend-of-mine-died-today\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friend of Mine Died Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her name was Lynn Hunter, but I knew her though our mutual activities in the SCA as, &#8220;Baroness Roana di Laci&#8221;, but usually, she was just Ro, as she she did not put on airs.<\/p>\n<p>She had cancer, and she was about 3 months younger than me.<\/p>\n<p>She is one of the few friends of mine with whom I <b>never<\/b> talked politics.<\/p>\n<p>When I first met her, the subject of her employment came up, and it turned out that she had been fired by her previous employer, the Heritage Foundation, for having cancer.<\/p>\n<p>I blurted out that I could probably find a lawyer willing to represent her <i>pro bono<\/i>, but she demurred.<\/p>\n<p>I may be clueless, but even I figured out that we had differing views.<\/p>\n<p>She was fun, and accessible, and welcomed my wife and I when we came to the area, and I&#8217;ll miss her.<\/p>\n<p>Good journey, Ro.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img211.imageshack.us\/img211\/5143\/37152543cp3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her name was Lynn Hunter, but I knew her though our mutual activities in the SCA as, &#8220;Baroness Roana di Laci&#8221;, but usually, she was just Ro, as she she did not put on airs. She had cancer, and she was about 3 months younger than me. She is one of the few friends of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197593"}],"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=197593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}