{"id":15666,"date":"2008-05-27T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15666.html"},"modified":"2008-05-27T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T12:00:04","slug":"losing-one-of-our-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/losing-one-of-our-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing one of our own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with a heavy heart that I mention that Ed Stephan, one of the Carpetbagger community&#8217;s most trusted and admired friends, died over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Ed first emailed me four years ago, letting me know about a fascinating report on war casualties. He quickly became someone I turned to for advice, insights, and a sounding board. By 2005, I invited Ed to do some guest posts, all of which were brilliant. A few months later, we added a comments section to the site, and Ed quickly became one of the site&#8217;s most astute and discerning voices.<\/p>\n<p>But outside the site, Ed Stephan was my friend. I enjoyed seeing pictures of his woodworking projects &#8212; he was extremely talented &#8212; and hearing about his vacations.<\/p>\n<p>I will miss him terribly. On behalf of the site and its readers, I extend my most heartfelt condolences to Ed&#8217;s family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with a heavy heart that I mention that Ed Stephan, one of the Carpetbagger community&#8217;s most trusted and admired friends, died over the weekend. Ed first emailed me four years ago, letting me know about a fascinating report on war casualties. He quickly became someone I turned to for advice, insights, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666","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=15666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}