{"id":710,"date":"2016-05-26T16:53:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T15:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=710"},"modified":"2016-05-26T17:08:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T16:08:33","slug":"dave-purdy-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Dave Purdy passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SimRacing community mourns the loss of one of its most gifted figures: On May 15th, Dave Purdy passed away aged 71. \u00a0His countless contributions to simracing will be remembered for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>We raise our glasses in remembrance to a man who never shied away from stating his opinions in a very soothing and likeable, yet determined \u00a0voice (the only medium that many of us ever got to know him over, sadly) \u00a0and who produced a plethora of useful information and genuine content \u00a0that helped us improve, enjoy and pursue our passion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dave_purdy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-716\" src=\"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/dave_purdy.png\" alt=\"dave_purdy\" width=\"180\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts &amp; deepest sympathies are with his family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>You will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, Dave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SimRacing community mourns the loss of one of its most gifted figures: On May 15th, Dave Purdy passed away aged 71. \u00a0His countless contributions to simracing will be remembered for a long time. We raise our glasses in remembrance to a man who never shied away from stating his opinions in a very soothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-simracing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}