{"id":1752,"date":"2007-09-16T13:45:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/09\/16\/remembering-a-friend\/"},"modified":"2007-09-16T13:45:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T20:45:41","slug":"remembering-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/09\/16\/remembering-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago in <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2005\/02\/08\/tecosystems-is-going-offline-for-a-few-days\/\">February<\/a>, my friend and former teammate Sean Bowler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williams.edu\/athletics\/news.php?id=8312&amp;sport=14&amp;year=2005&amp;type=general\">passed away<\/a> at the age of 29, felled by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis\">amyotrophic lateral sclerosis<\/a>, better known as Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease. He was survived by his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.als-ny.org\/news4.htm#helene\">wonderful family<\/a>, and his girlfriend Adena Herskovitz who was by his side through the very end. <\/p>\n<p>As Yahoo Calendar reminded me this morning, today would have been his 32nd birthday, and I would not have the day pass unremarked upon. <\/p>\n<p>He was one of the finest people I have ever known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago in February, my friend and former teammate Sean Bowler passed away at the age of 29, felled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease. He was survived by his wonderful family, and his girlfriend Adena Herskovitz who was by his side through the very end. As Yahoo Calendar reminded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}