{"id":812,"date":"2010-01-06T02:13:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T09:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/?p=812"},"modified":"2010-03-21T02:15:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T09:15:33","slug":"rip-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/2010\/01\/06\/rip-wizard\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Wizard died last night at 9:20 pm PST. He\u2019d been sick for a long time, fighting off cancer, but it finally got to be too much for him.<\/p>\n<p>I got to talk to him briefly on New Year\u2019s Eve, so I sort of got to say goodbye, but it was still shocking how quickly after that it took him. He sounded strong when I talked to him, even though he was saying he only had maybe a week or two left, so I didn\u2019t quite believe it and I told him I\u2019d call him again in the next couple of days. He\u2019d been holding on for so long that I thought he had more time. He didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s to Wizard. He was a great guy, the kind of person you loved the minute you met him. I\u2019m glad I got the chance to know him.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a couple of pictures I took of him. The first is at the Love Ride in November of \u201807, the second was taken in Reno in April of \u201809. This is how I like to remember him: smiling, strong, having a good time, being the Wizard we all loved so much.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2010\/01\/wizard_love-ride.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 225px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2010\/01\/wizard_love-ride-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wizard at Love Ride\" title=\"Wizard at Love Ride\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a><br \/>\nWizard at Love Ride<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2010\/01\/wizard_reno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/pix\/2010\/01\/wizard_reno-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Wizard on his bike in Reno\" title=\"Wizard on his bike in Reno\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\"><\/a><br \/>\nWizard on his bike in Reno<\/p>\n<p>Ride free and easy, brother. I miss you already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Wizard died last night at 9:20 pm PST. He\u2019d been sick for a long time, fighting off cancer, but it finally got to be too much for him. I got to talk to him briefly on New Year\u2019s Eve, so I sort of got to say goodbye, but it was still shocking how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}