{"id":5062,"date":"2013-06-02T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T21:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:23:30","slug":"georges-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5062","title":{"rendered":"George&#8217;s tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, my wife and I attended a very moving ceremony in the memory of my good friend, George Olah, who <a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4729\">passed away earlier<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>George&#8217;s daughters decided to dedicate a tree in a public park in Ottawa to their father. A little marble plaque at the foot of the tree bears George&#8217;s name, the dates of his birth and death, and the Hungarian word for cheers, &#8220;eg\u00e9szs\u00e9gedre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A violinist was also present. The sound of a solo violin during a cloudy, rainy day was especially poignant and it helped set a somber mood. At one point, when the violinist was asked to play one of George&#8217;s favorite tunes, I was able to capture a few seconds of it with my cell phone.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4jNczYHkDY0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Yet we also had plenty of laughs. George, after all, was a very happy person and his stories were always delightful. My favorite moment: when one of George&#8217;s daughters told us that the city permit would even have allowed them to set up a trampoline, several of us exclaimed, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you?&#8221; That is because we all knew that George would have loved something so unconventional.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5062' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, my wife and I attended a very moving ceremony in the memory of my good friend, George Olah, who passed away earlier this year. George&#8217;s daughters decided to dedicate a tree in a public park in Ottawa to their father. A little marble plaque at the foot of the tree bears George&#8217;s name, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5062' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11484,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/11484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}