{"id":24779,"date":"2015-09-29T08:17:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T06:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=24779"},"modified":"2015-09-29T08:17:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T06:17:56","slug":"alex-king-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/29\/alex-king-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex King, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/alex-king.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24780\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/29\/alex-king-rip\/alex-king\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/alex-king.png?fit=1018%2C614&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1018,614\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Alex King\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/alex-king.png?fit=660%2C398&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24780\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/alex-king-500x302.png?resize=500%2C302&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Alex King\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/alex-king.png?resize=500%2C302&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/alex-king.png?w=1018&amp;ssl=1 1018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sad, <a href=\"http:\/\/wptavern.com\/alex-king-founder-of-crowd-favorite-passes-away\">sad news<\/a>. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alexking.org\/\">Alex King<\/a>, the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/crowdfavorite.com\/\">Crowd Favorite<\/a> and a major contributor to WordPress and its ecosystem, has passed away. \u00a0I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/27\/alex-king-rememberances\/\">blogged earlier<\/a> about him being diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Sad, sad news. \u00a0Alex King, the founder of Crowd Favorite and a major contributor to WordPress and its ecosystem, has passed away. \u00a0I&#8217;ve blogged earlier about him being diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334,60],"tags":[3373,3139],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-24779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","category-wordpress","tag-alex-king","tag-rip"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sad, sad news. 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