{"id":635,"date":"2008-02-04T14:32:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/04\/thanks-sheldon-brown\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T21:30:38","slug":"thanks-sheldon-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/04\/thanks-sheldon-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Sheldon Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/scb-harrisjersey-5-16-07b.jpg\" alt=\"Sheldon Brown 1944-2008\" class=\"imagefloatright\" height=\"151\" width=\"113\" \/>Most of us will take far more from the Internet than we will ever give back.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/\">Sheldon Brown<\/a>, however, managed to give far more than he could ever have taken.\u00c2\u00a0 Sheldon <a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/harris\/\">passed away yesterday<\/a>, apparently of a massive heart attack.\u00c2\u00a0 He will be missed by an enormous number of people, most of whom have never met him.\u00c2\u00a0 There isn&#8217;t a cyclist I know who hasn&#8217;t referred to Sheldon&#8217;s near encyclopedic site on all things bike for the answer to one mystery or another.\u00c2\u00a0 Ride on, Sheldon.\u00c2\u00a0 You will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who only knew about Sheldon&#8217;s love of bikes, be sure to check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.org\/photography.html\">photography<\/a>, his <a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/org\/journal\/journal-0801.html\">journal\/blog<\/a>, and, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.org\/personal-pages.html\">a little bit of everything else<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us will take far more from the Internet than we will ever give back.\u00c2\u00a0 Sheldon Brown, however, managed to give far more than he could ever have taken.\u00c2\u00a0 Sheldon passed away yesterday, apparently of a massive heart attack.\u00c2\u00a0 He will be missed by an enormous number of people, most of whom have never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Most of us will take far more from the Internet than we will ever give back.\u00c2 Sheldon Brown, however, managed to give far more than he could ever have taken.\u00c2 Sheldon passed away yesterday, apparently of a massive heart attack.\u00c2 He will be missed by an enormous number of people, most of whom have never\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"cycling\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/04\/thanks-sheldon-brown\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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