{"id":1252,"date":"2004-08-17T05:32:45","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T12:32:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-08-17T05:32:45","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T12:32:45","slug":"mike-mayakis-rip-a-few-additional-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/mike-mayakis-rip-a-few-additional-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Mayakis, RIP, a few additional words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtually all long-time Libertarians in the Bay Area knew Mike — I knew him for, good lord, almost 20 years, starting with working on the Russell Means’ libertarian presidential campaign, of all things. What I loved about Mike was how endlessly enthusiastic he was: “If people really understood, they’d certainly be for freedom.” “If people thought a little harder, they’d be more self-empowered.” “If people were a little more educated, they’d throw off the shackles of group think.” And he pretty much worked contstantly in support of these beliefs, even to the extent of writing a book on how to take charge of your own welfare in the emergency room<\/a> when his health became more problematic. And I’ll greatly miss his humor and sense of other people: I had to laugh when I just reread the email he sent me on Justin’s birthday this past fall, reminding me of that fact: “I think Justin turns 52 today, (like me, Justin is finally playing with a full deck:-)). Justin shares his Birthday with Mickey Mouse who turned 75 today….” We’ll miss you, Mayakis! Who else do we have to help us keep things in perspective? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virtually all long-time Libertarians in the Bay Area knew Mike — I knew him for, good lord, almost 20 years, starting with working on the Russell Means’ libertarian presidential campaign, of all things. What I loved about Mike was how endlessly enthusiastic he was: “If people really understood, they’d certainly be for freedom.” “If people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-1252","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\/1252","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}