{"id":22507,"date":"2016-11-21T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22507"},"modified":"2016-11-21T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T01:15:09","slug":"goodbye-to-sek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22507","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to SEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sek-590x393.jpg\" alt=\"sek\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sek-590x393.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sek-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sek-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sek.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott Erik Kaufman, a writer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/scott_eric_kaufman\/\">Salon <\/a>and other outlets, and a blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/acephalous.typepad.com\/\">Acephalous <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/author\/sek\/\">Lawyers Guns and Money<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2016\/11\/goodbye\">passed away<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I was never lucky enough to meet SEK, as I thought of him. But he was an incredibly smart writer who I&#8217;ve linked countless times over the years, both for his political writing and for his comics analysis. Plus, he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com\/2016\/03\/in-retrospect-i-shouldve-turned-this-into-a-real-life-marx-bros-routine\">hilarious<\/a>. The world is better because he passed through it.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scotterickaufman\">memorializing Scott on Facebook<\/a>. There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/help-for-scotts-medical-bills\">fundraiser <\/a>to help his family with medical bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Erik Kaufman, a writer at Salon and other outlets, and a blogger at Acephalous and Lawyers Guns and Money, has passed away. I was never lucky enough to meet SEK, as I thought of him. But he was an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22510,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507\/revisions\/22510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}