{"id":335,"date":"2003-07-01T08:41:49","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T15:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2003-07-01T08:41:49","modified_gmt":"2003-07-01T15:41:49","slug":"too-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/07\/too-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Too sad…"},"content":{"rendered":"

XMCA Mail 2000_12: Alan Peshkin, r.i.p.<\/a><\/p>\n

>>Alan Peshkin (Buddy) died yesterday after a yearlong struggle
\n>>with a particularly aggressive brain cancer. Until two weeks
\n>>ago, he was meeting his classes at Stanford, conferring with
\n>>students and colleagues, and actively collecting source
\n>>materials for his projected book on Muslims and their schools
\n>>in America.<\/p>\n

I’ve been reading Peshkin’s book God’s Choice<\/i>, about the culture of christian schools. It stirred me so much, I thought I should find out more about Peshkin.<\/p>\n

I was so pleased to find he was a professor at Stanford! Stanford! That’s close! I was just fantasizing about talking with him, and telling him how much I appreciated his fine work.<\/p>\n

But then I find the above postint. He’s dead. Too young, really. Only 69.<\/p>\n

I mourn him, even though we never met. His book reveals an extraordinary man.<\/p>\n

I hope his students are able to produce some more works in the tradition he taught them. The world is a richer place because of what Alan Peshkin accomplished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

XMCA Mail 2000_12: Alan Peshkin, r.i.p. >>Alan Peshkin (Buddy) died yesterday after a yearlong struggle >>with a particularly aggressive brain cancer. Until two weeks >>ago, he was meeting his classes at Stanford, conferring with >>students and colleagues, and actively collecting … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}