{"id":9684,"date":"2012-05-25T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/25\/richard-swinburnes-obituary-of-c-j-f-williams\/"},"modified":"2012-05-25T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:24:53","slug":"richard-swinburnes-obituary-of-c-j-f-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/25\/richard-swinburnes-obituary-of-c-j-f-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Swinburne&#8217;s Obituary of C. J. F. Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I wasn&#39;t aware of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/obituary-professor-c-j-f-williams-1275651.html\" target=\"_self\">this<\/a> until now.&#0160; Williams was <a href=\"http:\/\/ocham.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">London Ed<\/a>&#39;s teacher.&#0160; I&#0160;&#0160;battle the former via the latter.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It came as news to me that Williams spent most of his life in a wheelchair.&#0160; It testifies to the possibilities of the human spirit that great adversity&#0160;for some is no impediment to achievement.&#0160; I think also of Stephen Hawking, Charles Krauthammer, and FDR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">So stop whining and be grateful for what you have. You could be in a bloody wheelchair!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#39;t aware of this until now.&#0160; Williams was London Ed&#39;s teacher.&#0160; I&#0160;&#0160;battle the former via the latter.&#0160; It came as news to me that Williams spent most of his life in a wheelchair.&#0160; It testifies to the possibilities of the human spirit that great adversity&#0160;for some is no impediment to achievement.&#0160; I think also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/25\/richard-swinburnes-obituary-of-c-j-f-williams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Richard Swinburne&#8217;s Obituary of C. J. F. Williams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}