{"id":113,"date":"2004-11-18T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T20:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=113"},"modified":"2004-11-18T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T20:58:02","slug":"please-pray-for-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Please pray for Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredemmott.co.uk\/index.php?page=blogentry&#038;id=19\">This post<\/a> from KDE hacker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredemmott.co.uk\">Fred Emmott<\/a> says it all. Patrick Volkerding, the one and only man behind the marvelous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slackware.com\">Slackware Linux<\/a> distribution, is battling a rare infectious disease.<\/p>\n<p>The message he left to the Internet community is <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.slackware.com\/pub\/slackware\/slackware-current\/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HELP.txt\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick is a really nice guy &#8212;and a public benefactor, given the fact that he makes Slackware available for free download over the Internet. His main effort, Slackware, is an excellent product, and I really hate to learn that he is suffering. I don&#8217;t have a clue about his spiritual condition; but please pray for his health. Slackware has been and is being a blessing to me and many others; now, please, pray that his creator is spared from evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post from KDE hacker Fred Emmott says it all. Patrick Volkerding, the one and only man behind the marvelous Slackware Linux distribution, is battling a rare infectious disease. The message he left to the Internet community is here. Patrick is a really nice guy &#8212;and a public benefactor, given the fact that he makes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}