{"id":40400,"date":"2017-09-21T22:29:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T03:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tuts8dev.wpenginepowered.com\/uncategorized\/in-memoriam\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:03:51","slug":"in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuts.org\/in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Frank M. 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