{"id":59,"date":"2006-11-03T18:01:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lipsey.org\/jim\/2006\/11\/03\/james-h-lipsey-1931-2006\/"},"modified":"2011-09-15T21:48:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T02:48:48","slug":"james-h-lipsey-1931-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/2006\/11\/03\/james-h-lipsey-1931-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"James H. Lipsey, 1931-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image58\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/dad.jpg\" alt=\"Dad\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He decided to go back to Vietnam for a few months to treat kids afflicted with Polio, though he had just landed a nice position in an orthopaedic practice in North Carolina&mdash;an opportunity that came after putting himself through medical school, serving in the Navy, and completing a difficult residency program in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>When his peers were contemplating retirement, Dad spent his evenings studying to become an Anglican priest.<\/p>\n<p>He married Stephanie and me, and baptised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipsey.org\/twins\">our children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And he wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAfter-Manner-Youth-James-Lipsey%2Fdp%2F0976656108%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1162593785%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&amp;tag=lipseyfamily-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">a novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday would have been his 75th birthday, though he wouldn&#8217;t have thought much of it.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s so much I&#8217;d like to share about Dad, and the wonderful father he was, but this is all I can manage right now.<\/p>\n<p>We really miss him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He decided to go back to Vietnam for a few months to treat kids afflicted with Polio, though he had just landed a nice position in an orthopaedic practice in North Carolina&mdash;an opportunity that came after putting himself through medical school, serving in the Navy, and completing a difficult residency program in Chicago. When his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}