{"id":3680,"date":"2006-12-12T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2006-12-12T12:58:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T17:58:13","slug":"leslie_harpold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/leslie_harpold\/","title":{"rendered":"leslie harpold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"leslie harpold\" src=\"images\/leslieharpold.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"264\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpold.com\/\">Leslie Harpold<\/a> passed away this weekend.<br \/>\nI was a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*\/http:\/\/hoopla.com\">hoopla.com<\/a> for years but was too shy to ever email her to say that I did, until it got stolen out from under her. I had a friend working for NetSol at the time and pulled some strings; she never did get it back but always remembered that I tried. After that we kept touch very casually, mainly through LiveJournal, where she gave the best advice about all sorts of things and was just all around awesome. On a bitter cold day in January, when I was frustrated and hopeless, the saddest I&#8217;ve ever been, she came through for me unexpectedly with kindness and love. I don&#8217;t exaggerate when I say I don&#8217;t know where I&#8217;d be today without her.<br \/>\nAs Kevin said, &#8220;Leslie, I\u2019m sorry that we didn\u2019t get to meet in person, but I\u2019m really thankful that you were in my life, and that you shared yours with me.&#8221;<br \/>\nMore Leslie on <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/leslie\/\">Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/helloreplace.livejournal.com\/\">LiveJournal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/leslie.vox.com\/\">Vox<\/a>; lots of memories from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whygodwhy.com\/2006\/leslie\/\">Kevin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mikemonteiro.vox.com\/library\/post\/thank-you-leslie.html\">Mike<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merlinmann.com\/2006\/12\/12\/leslie\/\">Merlin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kathryn.vox.com\/library\/post\/these-are-the-things-she-gave-to-me.html\">Kathryn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancearthur.com\/archives\/001649.html\">Lance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dayan.livejournal.com\/350699.html\">Dan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/5500.livejournal.com\/608505.html\">Matt<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/56941\">MetaFilter<\/a>. Kevin&#8217;s keeping a list of the dozens upon dozens of tributes at <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/kfan\/leslieharpold?setcount=100\">del.icio.us\/kfan\/leslieharpold\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Harpold passed away this weekend. I was a big fan of hoopla.com for years but was too shy to ever email her to say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}