{"id":167,"date":"2007-12-02T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T10:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=167"},"modified":"2007-12-02T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T10:46:16","slug":"james-barber-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/james-barber-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"James Barber Passes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/2007\/12\/02\/photo_about.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"108\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/2007-small\/12\/02\/photo_about.jpg\" title=\"Photo_about\" alt=\"Photo_about\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>Sad news came to me on Saturday&#8230;a man that I looked up to for many years has passed away.&nbsp; James Barber, known to many Canadians and people around the world as the Urban Peasant, died suddenly at age 84 in his home in the Cowichan Valley on Thursday, November 29th.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/2007\/12\/03\/dsc_1514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/2007-small\/12\/03\/dsc_1514.jpg\" title=\"Dsc_1514\" alt=\"Dsc_1514\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> My condolences to his family.&nbsp; I am planning a tribute to James on my next All You Can Eat podcast.&nbsp; Check my website or blog for more details in the coming days.&nbsp; You can read a CBC News story about James <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2007\/12\/02\/barber-tvchef-obit.html\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; I appeared on The Early Edition on CBC Vancouver this morning to talk about James, you can <a href=\"\/files\/barber_early_ed.mp3\">listen<\/a>  to my chat with Rick Cluff, and I&#8217;ve posted a Facebook photo album of some shots I have of James at various events.&nbsp; You can view it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=32189&amp;l=2220a&amp;id=603820914\">here<\/a>, even if you don&#8217;t have a Facebook account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news came to me on Saturday&#8230;a man that I looked up to for many years has passed away.&nbsp; James Barber, known to many Canadians and people around the world as the Urban Peasant, died suddenly at age 84 in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/james-barber-pa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}