{"id":20697,"date":"2025-06-08T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=20697"},"modified":"2025-06-08T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T07:40:00","slug":"bill-atkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/bill-atkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Atkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RIP  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Atkinson\">Bill Atkinson<\/a> March 17, 1951 \u2013 June 5, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among many other things, the invention of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HyperCard\">HyperCard<\/a>. Certainly the most important piece of software in my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP Bill Atkinson March 17, 1951 \u2013 June 5, 2025 Among many other things, the invention of HyperCard. Certainly the most important piece of software in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/114646600625139642","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3lr3e7xuhsj2p"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953],"tags":[1969,135],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-20697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-posse","7":"tag-bill-atkinson","8":"tag-hypercard","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-article","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5nP","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20699,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20697\/revisions\/20699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20697"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=20697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}