{"id":1810,"date":"2009-09-21T23:52:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T04:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2009-09-21T23:52:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T04:52:52","slug":"praise-to-effortthe-greatest-human-is-dead-the-globe-and-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/21\/praise-to-effortthe-greatest-human-is-dead-the-globe-and-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Praise To Effort::The greatest human is dead &#8211; The Globe and Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Norman Borlaug died on September 12, 2009, at 95 years of age. His family released a simple statement that \u201cWe would like his life to be a model for making a difference in the lives of others and to bring about efforts to end human misery for all mankind.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen Princess Diana died, television networks covered it 24\/7. Michael Jackson\u2019s passing created a tsunami of Internet traffic. I learned about Borlaug\u2019s passing on the sidebar of a news website on global development issues in foreign policy.<br \/>\nNorman Borlaug goes to a better place having made the Earth undeniably better, safer and freed from hunger.<br \/>\nAnd he goes in virtual silence.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/blogs\/andrew-steele\/the-greatest-human-is-dead\/article1293395\/\">The greatest human is dead &#8211; The Globe and Mail<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Borlaug died on September 12, 2009, at 95 years of age. His family released a simple statement that \u201cWe would like his life to be a model for making a difference in the lives of others and to bring about efforts to end human misery for all mankind.\u201d When Princess Diana died, television networks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/21\/praise-to-effortthe-greatest-human-is-dead-the-globe-and-mail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Praise To Effort::The greatest human is dead &#8211; The Globe and Mail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-praise-to-effort"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}