{"id":35,"date":"2010-06-04T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T00:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2010-06-04T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T00:45:14","slug":"august-2002-a-mentor-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/august-2002-a-mentor-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2002: A Mentor Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was really hard for me to right this one. It was a busy month. I started dating again. I started working again doing Perl work for $15 an hour. Yes, the web industry crashed that bad. A mentor of 5 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1083682.Hal_Sarf\">Hal Sarf<\/a>, passed away from cancer.<\/p>\n<p><b>Books:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Symposium<\/li>\n<li>The Phaedrus<\/li>\n<li>Aristotle&#8217;s Politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On-line dating sucked so bad this month that I swore it off forever. One of the last things Hal taught me before he died was how to get a number from a waitress, which impressed me from a 68 year old.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if it wasn&#8217;t for Hal, I wouldn&#8217;t&#8217;ve gotten to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Rorty\">Richard Rorty<\/a>. His lecture on why Hegelian language can do nothing for social justice really impressed me. He read a newspaper clipping about a Jacquard loom worker who died and left his family in abject poverty and then went on to read some Hegelian non-sense about the progressive march of history towards the wellspring of Being. Okay, I&#8217;m convinced.  Obscurantism in philosophy is a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was really hard for me to right this one. It was a busy month. I started dating again. I started working again doing Perl work for $15 an hour. Yes, the web industry crashed that bad. A mentor of 5 years, Hal Sarf, passed away from cancer. Books: The Symposium The Phaedrus Aristotle&#8217;s Politics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/august-2002-a-mentor-dies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">August 2002: A Mentor Dies<\/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":[7],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-august-2002"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}