{"id":10999,"date":"2007-06-03T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T12:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10999.html"},"modified":"2007-06-03T08:30:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T12:30:41","slug":"steve-gilliard-1966-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/steve-gilliard-1966-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Gilliard, 1966-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve probably heard, Steve Gilliard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewsblog.net\/\">died yesterday<\/a> at the age of 41. His strong, passionate voice will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>My condolences to his family and friends. I didn&#8217;t know Steve well, and never had the pleasure of meeting him, but I enjoyed his hard-hitting, unapologetic posts, and was always impressed with his consistently-amazing work. Steve&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/stevegilliard.blogspot.com\/2003\/08\/welcome-to-my-new-blog.html\">very first solo post<\/a> on his blog told readers, &#8220;If you&#8217;ve read me at Daily Kos and NetSlaves, then you know what to expect. If not, it&#8217;s really simple: I say what I mean and mean what I say.&#8221; Truer words were never spoken.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Steve from those who knew him well, I&#8217;d encourage readers to check these pieces from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/6\/3\/1741\/20535\">Kos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firedoglake.com\/2007\/06\/02\/steve-gilliard-1966-2007\/\">FDL<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/6\/2\/161436\/4239\">Meteor Blades<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ve probably heard, Steve Gilliard died yesterday at the age of 41. His strong, passionate voice will be sorely missed. My condolences to his family and friends. I didn&#8217;t know Steve well, and never had the pleasure of meeting him, but I enjoyed his hard-hitting, unapologetic posts, and was always impressed with his consistently-amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}