{"id":298,"date":"2015-11-11T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2015-11-11T10:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:35:26","slug":"in-remembrance-of-chalfant-historian-michael-connors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"In Remembrance of Chalfant Historian Michael Connors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chalfant recently lost a wonderful writer and historic preservation advocate, Michael Connors. Although I did not know him personally, I was sorry to miss the chance\u00a0to let him know how much I enjoyed his\u00a0essay about the atom smasher that appeared in the <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em>. Here is the link to it\u2013 any readers from the area will appreciate the memories here!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/portfolio\/2015\/07\/29\/Local-Dispatch-Downed-atom-smasher-supported-Chalfant-so-long\/stories\/201501010236\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/portfolio\/2015\/07\/29\/Local-Dispatch-Downed-atom-smasher-supported-Chalfant-so-long\/stories\/201501010236<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also here&#8217;s a link to this article about him, which in turn has links to some of his articles. Read some, you will enjoy them and learn something new too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/brian-oneill\/2015\/10\/25\/Brian-O-Neill-To-Pittsburgh-historian-Michael-Connors-who-knew-how-to-both-live-and-die\/stories\/201510250135\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/brian-oneill\/2015\/10\/25\/Brian-O-Neill-To-Pittsburgh-historian-Michael-Connors-who-knew-how-to-both-live-and-die\/stories\/201510250135<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">He and his writing and enthusiasm for local history will be missed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalfant recently lost a wonderful writer and historic preservation advocate, Michael Connors. Although I did not know him personally, I was sorry to miss the chance\u00a0to let him know how much I enjoyed his\u00a0essay about the atom smasher that appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Here is the link to it\u2013 any readers from the area will appreciate the memories here! http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/portfolio\/2015\/07\/29\/Local-Dispatch-Downed-atom-smasher-supported-Chalfant-so-long\/stories\/201501010236 Also here&#8217;s a link to this article about him, which in turn has links to some of his articles. Read some, you will enjoy them and learn something new too! http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/brian-oneill\/2015\/10\/25\/Brian-O-Neill-To-Pittsburgh-historian-Michael-Connors-who-knew-how-to-both-live-and-die\/stories\/201510250135 He and his writing and enthusiasm for local history will be missed. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/?p=298\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[30,7,3,4],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chalfant-pa","category-commentary","category-current-events","category-westinghouse-atom-smasher","tag-westinghouse-atom-smasher"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SLv2-4O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atomicconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}