{"id":539,"date":"2008-12-19T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2008-12-19T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T14:20:09","slug":"in-memory-jane-raven-orttung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"In Memory: Jane Raven Orttung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, my old Piscataway neighbor passed away.\u00a0 Jane Raven Orttung was the daughter of Henry Raven, a well known explorer.\u00a0 Their lives were in part depicted in the fictional account, <strong><em>Jennie<\/em><\/strong>, by Robert Preston, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9500E1D61730F934A15752C1A962958260&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=all\">reviewed<\/a> New York Times some years ago.\u00a0 Dr. Orttung herself was a researcher at the Alexander Library of Rutgers University, and was one of the few people who could legally travel to Cuba for research purposes.\u00a0 She was a lovely neighbor, and her extraordinary children were good friends during my childhood.\u00a0 For over twenty years she had a wonderful partner, who is a great man.\u00a0 I wish them all peace in this difficult time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, my old Piscataway neighbor passed away.\u00a0 Jane Raven Orttung was the daughter of Henry Raven, a well known explorer.\u00a0 Their lives were in part depicted in the fictional account, Jennie, by Robert Preston, which was reviewed New York Times some years ago.\u00a0 Dr. Orttung herself was a researcher at the Alexander Library of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Memory: Jane Raven Orttung&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}