{"id":1538,"date":"2006-09-16T20:57:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2006-09-17T20:03:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T01:03:16","slug":"rob-lilo-levin-dies-in-bike-car-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/rob-lilo-levin-dies-in-bike-car-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob &#8220;lilo&#8221; Levin dies in bike-car collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>freenode News Thursday 16 September 2006 at 10:58:00:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the 12th September Rob Levin, known to many as Freenode&#8217;s lilo, was hit by a car while riding his bike. He suffered head injuries and was in a coma. Rob was being treated at the Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit at a local hospital in Houston, Texas where he passed away in on Sept 16th.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with Rob and his family, and we ask that you respect their privacy during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences can be sent to <em>condolences AT freenode.net<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of freenode Staff and the PDPC Board, Christel Dahlskjaer, Mike Mattice and Phil Stracchino. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For many years, ibiblio hosted <a href=\"http:\/\/freenode.net\/\">the FreeNode pages<\/a>. Any time we were off the net between here and Houston, we could be sure that we&#8217;d be hearing from Rob. He was completely dedicated to keeping communications amongst Free Software developers open and available. His death at age 50 is untimely and saddening.<\/p>\n<p>From Laughing Squid:<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: A quiet channel as been setup at #lilo-memorial for reverent idling and #lilo-mourning for discussion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/linux.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/09\/16\/2152243\"><br \/>\nSlashdot story and comments here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>freenode News Thursday 16 September 2006 at 10:58:00: On the 12th September Rob Levin, known to many as Freenode&#8217;s lilo, was hit by a car while riding his bike. He suffered head injuries and was in a coma. Rob was being treated at the Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit at a local hospital in Houston, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}