{"id":1314,"date":"2009-03-20T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2014-08-04T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T17:36:50","slug":"a-short-tribute-to-mort-lachman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2009\/03\/20\/a-short-tribute-to-mort-lachman\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Tribute to Mort Lachman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The single best thing about being involved in the Mac community is the great people you get to meet (all-be-it virtually). This evening my thoughts are with one of those people in particular, Robert Lachman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographyandthemac.com\" target=\"_blank\">Photography and the Mac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macreviewcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mac Review Cast<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\" target=\"_blank\">NosillaCast<\/a> fame. Over the past months I&#8217;ve really been enjoying a series of photos Robert&#8217;s been posting to his blog. They&#8217;re pictures of the great Bob Hope taken by his dad, Mort Lachman, who was on of Bob&#8217;s main writers. The photos are fantastic in their candour and lack of any pretentiousness.<\/p>\n<p>I was very sad to read earlier in the week that Mort was in hospital having suffered a heart attack, and even sadder today to learn that he has passed away. Robert has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographyandthemac.com\/files\/aa1f1de1a4a84b9e176be479ec985b66-355.html\" target=\"_blank\">fantastic video<\/a> on his website, which I think serves as a wonderful tribute to his Dad. I also think everyone should check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographyandthemac.com\/files\/category-bob-hope.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mort&#8217;s great series of Bob Hope photos<\/a>, they really are something special.<\/p>\n<p>If you read this Robert, you and your family are in my thoughts at this difficult time in your lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The single best thing about being involved in the Mac community is the great people you get to meet (all-be-it virtually). This evening my thoughts are with one of those people in particular, Robert Lachman of Photography and the Mac, Mac Review Cast, and NosillaCast fame. Over the past months I&#8217;ve really been enjoying a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[161],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-obituary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}