{"id":1250,"date":"2004-08-16T01:33:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T08:33:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-08-16T01:33:18","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T08:33:18","slug":"mike-mayakis-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/16\/mike-mayakis-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Mayakis, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My best friend for the past 26 years died this evening. He was 54 and finally gave up his long battle with leukemia. I saw him yesterday and he was in so much pain. I am glad that pain is gone, but very sad that Mike is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you knew Mike. Without Mike, there would be no Antiwar.com. I would have long ago given up political action if it weren&#8217;t for his constant prodding and pep talks. <\/p>\n<p>Mike insisted I use my political time efficiently and get on the Web, urging me to secure the Antiwar.com domain back in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Mike gave me constant input and advice to help build Antiwar.com. He wrote one article for us, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/mayakis1.html\">Superman vs. the War Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mike was very active in the Libertarian Party, and held many positions and ran for office once or twice. His views on the LP are most notable in his &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/users.erols.com\/famularo\/mayakis.htm\">Turning Burnout Into Victory<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I love Mike and I will miss him so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My best friend for the past 26 years died this evening. He was 54 and finally gave up his long battle with leukemia. I saw him yesterday and he was in so much pain. I am glad that pain is gone, but very sad that Mike is gone. Some of you knew Mike. Without Mike, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}