{"id":10818,"date":"2012-01-04T22:34:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T06:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2012-01-07T20:57:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T04:57:29","slug":"rip-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/01\/04\/rip-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just received word that my friend, Richard Alf, who I went to see yesterday in a care facility, died today. He was one of the original group of comic book fans that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheldorftribute.com\/2010\/02\/16\/a-day-of-remembrance-and-gratitude-for-shel-dorf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shel Dorf<\/a> had brought together to create the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Comic Convention<\/a>. Judging by the outpouring of support from friends around the world, I wish I had spent more time getting to know him better.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are at Shel Dorf&#8217;s funeral back on November 4th of 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Richard-Alf-PAC-lo-res.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10818]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10819\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/01\/04\/rip-richard\/richard-alf-pac-lo-res\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Richard-Alf-PAC-lo-res.jpg?fit=540%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"540,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SD880 IS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1257343529&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Richard Alf &amp;#038; PAC lo-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Richard-Alf-PAC-lo-res.jpg?fit=540%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10819\" title=\"Richard Alf &amp; PAC lo-res\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Richard-Alf-PAC-lo-res-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Richard-Alf-PAC-lo-res.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Richard-Alf-PAC-lo-res.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just received word that my friend, Richard Alf, who I went to see yesterday in a care facility, died today. He was one of the original group of comic book fans that Shel Dorf had brought together to create the San Diego Comic Convention. Judging by the outpouring of support from friends around the world, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/01\/04\/rip-richard\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,162,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-medical","category-suck","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-2Ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10884,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions\/10884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}