{"id":2533,"date":"2011-04-05T17:02:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T00:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2013-04-05T13:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:50:45","slug":"so-long-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2011\/04\/05\/so-long-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago today, Michael Spencer, AKA &#8220;The Internet Monk&#8221; died very prematurely of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>His wife Denise has written a moving and short post about his life <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/the-forever-frontier\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael may not have been that interested in most of what I blog about here and we only ever conversed a handful of times via email. Nevertheless, he is probably the #1 reason I write anything at all. Also, his wise advice tempered both my doubts and enthusiasm during some of the most difficult stretches of my life. It completely sucks that he&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p>Along those lines, here is a beautiful piece from my favorite musicians, Pierre Bensusan. It was written after the passing of Michael Hedges, a brilliant guitarist who also died very prematurely.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PPJ5dosLuEQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago today, Michael Spencer, AKA &#8220;The Internet Monk&#8221; died very prematurely of cancer. His wife Denise has written a moving and short post about his life here. Michael may not have been that interested in most of what I blog about here and we only ever conversed a handful of times via email. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2011\/04\/05\/so-long-michael\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So Long Michael&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}