{"id":9746,"date":"2011-04-23T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/04\/23\/lew-binford-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T22:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T04:16:06","slug":"lew-binford-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/lew-binford-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lew Binford is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologist Lew Binford has died at the age of 79 at his home in Kirksville, Mo.  He died of a a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>I knew Lew a little, having spent some time with him while I was in graduate school, and having met him at the occassional conference (he was famous for NOT going to conferences very often by the time the 1980s rolled around).<\/p>\n<p>Lew was a dick, a very smart guy, and probably had as much influence on archaeology as any other individual.  Those who have taken classes from me know that I&#8217;ve got a few stories to tell about him.  But not now.<\/p>\n<p>RIP Lew Binford.  May your bones be dug up some day by someone with a strong grounding in Middle Range Theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologist Lew Binford has died at the age of 79 at his home in Kirksville, Mo. He died of a a heart attack. I knew Lew a little, having spent some time with him while I was in graduate school, and having met him at the occassional conference (he was famous for NOT going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/lew-binford-is-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lew Binford is Dead<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5052],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2xc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28293,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions\/28293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}