{"id":40108,"date":"2017-09-09T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T12:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40108"},"modified":"2017-09-09T08:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T12:14:47","slug":"dr-jerry-pournelle-1933-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/09\/dr-jerry-pournelle-1933-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jerry Pournelle, 1933-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this brief notice at <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/275067\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Instapundit<\/em><\/a> last night and shared it with my <em>Facebook<\/em> friends:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ALEX POURNELLE TEXTS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Hi<br \/>\nI\u2019m afraid that Jerry passed away<br \/>\nWe had a great time at DragonCon<br \/>\nHe did not suffer. Please feel free to post this news.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rest in peace, Jerry. You will be missed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I met Dr. Pournelle at SF conventions a couple of times, but you can&#8217;t say you knew someone on the basis of fleeting contacts like that. We did have a few minutes of discussion at one convention on the topic of why Harrison Ford&#8217;s portrayal of Indiana Jones was\/was not a faithful characterization of how most people viewed archaeologists &#8230; which was highly entertaining. Although I enjoyed his SF writing, I actually thought of him more as a computer journalist, as I was a huge fan of his Chaos Manor columns in <em>Byte<\/em> magazine. As with George Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/orwell.ru\/library\/articles\/As_I_Please\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">As I please<\/a>&#8221; columns, Pournelle didn&#8217;t let himself be limited to just bits and bytes and the range of topics was sometimes far outside the normal range for the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Here is his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Pournelle\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wikipedia<\/em><\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this brief notice at Instapundit last night and shared it with my Facebook friends: ALEX POURNELLE TEXTS: Hi I\u2019m afraid that Jerry passed away We had a great time at DragonCon He did not suffer. Please feel free to post this news. Rest in peace, Jerry. You will be missed. I met Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[293,85],"class_list":["post-40108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-obituary","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aqU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40109,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40108\/revisions\/40109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}