{"id":77,"date":"2013-10-16T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2013-10-16T22:01:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T22:01:29","slug":"on-the-death-of-jrb-julius-r-blumstein","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=77","title":{"rendered":"On the Death of JRB (Julius R Blum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the Death of JRB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Death takes from us in a sudden and sharp way<\/p>\n<p>and leaves a gap in our spirits<\/p>\n<p>that is hard to describe<\/p>\n<p>but the lack of feeling is there<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life gives to us laughter and joy<\/p>\n<p>a knowledge that somewhere<\/p>\n<p>this man who so loves life<\/p>\n<p>is enjoying it<\/p>\n<p>fulfilling it<\/p>\n<p>even if we do not meet often<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Death has taken this man<\/p>\n<p>and moved his spirit elsewhere<\/p>\n<p>Our souls feel another<\/p>\n<p>emptiness<\/p>\n<p>some of our depth is gone<\/p>\n<p>and can never be replaced<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life and Death<\/p>\n<p>Death and Life<\/p>\n<p>these are the ways of<\/p>\n<p>man and all creatures<\/p>\n<p>So we must bear up<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>though we feel the emptiness<\/p>\n<p>seek a new<\/p>\n<p>fullness<\/p>\n<p>in this world<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>14 April 1982<\/p>\n<p>[Julius Blum was hired as the Chair of the Statistics Department at UC Davis in the late 1970s and was one of my<\/p>\n<p>mentors when I first arrived there. He died of a heart attack.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Death of JRB by Marc Mangel &nbsp; Death takes from us in a sudden and sharp way and leaves a gap in our spirits that is hard to describe but the lack of feeling is there &nbsp; Life gives to us laughter and joy a knowledge that somewhere this man who so loves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=77\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/91"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}