{"id":985,"date":"2003-07-13T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/13\/eric-humphrey-gordon-is-not-dead\/"},"modified":"2003-07-13T01:25:20","modified_gmt":"2003-07-13T05:25:20","slug":"eric-humphrey-gordon-is-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/13\/eric-humphrey-gordon-is-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Humphrey Gordon Is NOT Dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a264'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Harvard Magazine (circulation 220,000) printed the following obituary:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ERIK HUMPHREY GORDON &#8217;95 died July 25, 2000, in New York City, from complications of injuries sustained in a ballooning accident outside Brussels. A lifelong amateur ballooning enthusiast, he had participated in competitions throughout the world. In 1999 he won the prestigious &#8220;Let&#8217;s Fly!&#8221; Award for excellence in ballooning from the International Federation of Balloonists. He leaves his life partner, Jeffrey, his parents, Michael and Sally, a sister, Amy, a brother, David, and a beloved pet monkey, Cher &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friends and aquaintences noticed some small inconsistencies &#8211; the Erik they knew had a deathly fear of heights, was straight, and couldn&#8217;t stand monkeys.  Turns out he was just trying to escape Harvard&#8217;s incessant money-grubbing solicitations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crabwalk.com\/misc\/harvard.php\">Read Erik&#8217;s side of the story here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, Harvard Magazine (circulation 220,000) printed the following obituary: &#8220;ERIK HUMPHREY GORDON &#8217;95 died July 25, 2000, in New York City, from complications of injuries sustained in a ballooning accident outside Brussels. A lifelong amateur ballooning enthusiast, he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/13\/eric-humphrey-gordon-is-not-dead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}