{"id":2005,"date":"2008-07-25T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2008-07-25T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T18:02:34","slug":"we-beat-the-reaper-by-living-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/07\/25\/we-beat-the-reaper-by-living-well\/","title":{"rendered":"We Beat the Reaper by Living Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/breaking\/2008\/07\/25\/Randy-Pausch-noted-CMU-prof-succumbs-to-cancer\/stories\/200807250145\">passed away<\/a> early today.  If you haven&#8217;t watched Pausch&#8217;s last lecture, you should:<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"pontiff-restored-video\" data-source-video=\"youtube-ji5_MqicxSo\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;width:560px;max-width:100%;aspect-ratio:16\/9;min-height:200px\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ji5_MqicxSo?feature=oembed\" title=\"Randy Pausch&#039;s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"encrypted-media;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\"><\/iframe><\/span><span style=\"display:block\"><a class=\"pontiff-restored-video-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo\">Watch Randy Pausch&#039;s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams on YouTube<\/a><\/span> This lecture, when I first saw it, reminded me how important humor is for teaching.  In other words, my students from last term can blame all my silly jokes on Randy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, passed away early today. If you haven&#8217;t watched Pausch&#8217;s last lecture, you should: This lecture, when I first saw it, reminded me how important humor is for teaching. In other words, my students from last term can blame all my silly jokes on Randy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}