{"id":4319,"date":"2025-03-10T17:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:25:05","slug":"the-passing-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/10\/the-passing-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passing of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4317\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Passing-of-an-Era-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Passing-of-an-Era-Fig2.jpg 401w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Passing-of-an-Era-Fig2-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>On March 7 one of my favorite bloggers, Kevin Drum, <a href=\"https:\/\/jabberwocking.com\/health-update-100\/\">passed away<\/a> from a longtime fight with cancer.\u00a0 To say he will be sorely missed is great understatement.\u00a0 From my limited perspective, his was the last of the original type of weblog, namely one written by a single person with multiple postings per day.\u00a0 And his perspective was unique.\u00a0 It was the only blog I\u2019ve seen that largely concentrates on data analysis of economics, science, medicine, societal trends, and on and on, in a clear, succinct, and informative manner.\u00a0 The text is further supported with simple graphs that provide visual clarity to the analysis.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Passing-of-an-Era-250310.pdf\">The Passing of an Era<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 7 one of my favorite bloggers, Kevin Drum, passed away from a longtime fight with cancer.\u00a0 To say he will be sorely missed is great understatement.\u00a0 From my limited perspective, his was the last of the original type of weblog, namely one written by a single person with multiple postings per day.\u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-4319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices","tag-kevin-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}