{"id":513,"date":"2010-01-29T03:52:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T03:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pedrozaplace.com\/blog1\/?p=513"},"modified":"2010-01-29T03:52:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T03:52:05","slug":"goodbye-rodger-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/goodbye-rodger-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Rodger Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those reading this probably don&#8217;t know who Rodger Swan is or what he did. I can&#8217;t say that I knew him personally and I know I never will. Unfortunately he died rather suddenly yesterday. What I can tell you is that he was a teacher working for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetprogramme.org\/\">JET program <\/a>in Japan (its a teacher exchange program where foreign teachers go and teach in Japan). He was also a you tuber (someone who posts videos on youtube). Nothing really special I guess, but what stuck out to me is that he had a dream and through his videos you could see that he was accomplishing that dream (that to me is very extraordinary). It is also interesting to me that in this day a person who I have never met, nor who knows me, can have an effect on me, but it does. Technology is a weird thing and it interesting to see how it can shape our interactions with people. Anyhow, I just wanted to say goodbye to Mr. Swan and offer my condolences to his family. If you get the chance I would encourage to go to youtube and check out his videos:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bObFMQYpbX0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bObFMQYpbX0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/rodgerswan\">www.youtube.com\/rodgerswan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those reading this probably don&#8217;t know who Rodger Swan is or what he did. I can&#8217;t say that I knew him personally and I know I never will. Unfortunately he died rather suddenly yesterday. What I can tell <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/goodbye-rodger-swan\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}