{"id":1262,"date":"2008-07-26T08:29:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T15:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2009-04-25T07:04:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T14:04:21","slug":"so-long-randy-and-thanks-for-the-last-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/26\/so-long-randy-and-thanks-for-the-last-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long Randy, and Thanks for the Last Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Randy Pausch, known for being a life-long innovator and learner died from cancer. I didn&#8217;t know him personally, but I did have a chance last fall to watch him deliver his &#8220;last lecture&#8221; and it was moving on many different levels. His family has my deepest sympathy and the world is a little more drab without Randy&#8217;s contributions. The best we can do is follow his example to live our lives fully each and every day and hope that we can leave such a positive and lasting legacy.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you haven&#8217;t had a chance to see this lecture, here it is. Watch it and you&#8217;ll be glad you invested the hour&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ji5_MqicxSo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ji5_MqicxSo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Randy Pausch, known for being a life-long innovator and learner died from cancer. I didn&#8217;t know him personally, but I did have a chance last fall to watch him deliver his &#8220;last lecture&#8221; and it was moving on many different levels. His family has my deepest sympathy and the world is a little more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}