{"id":21563,"date":"2025-09-15T13:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=21563"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:35:16","slug":"ed-rutsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2025\/09\/ed-rutsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Rutsch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ten years ago I blogged about renowned archeologist, and family friend, Ed Rutsch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I noted at the time that, “when he died, a Yahoo Group was setup for his many friends to share their Big Ed stories. Because everyone has a Big Ed story.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yahoo Groups shut down 5 years after I wrote that post, but before it did I grabbed an export of all of the Remembering Big Ed<\/em> memorial group messages and pictures so these cherished memories wouldn’t be lost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took another five years but, with the help of AI, I have finally cleaned up all of those messages and have made them all available<\/a> so Ed’s many friends and family can read these stories and memories once again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago I blogged about renowned archeologist, and family friend, Ed Rutsch. I noted at the time that, “when he died, a Yahoo Group was setup for his many friends to share their Big Ed stories. Because everyone has a Big Ed story.” Yahoo Groups shut down 5 years after I wrote that post, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[236,150],"class_list":["post-21563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ed-rutsch","tag-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-5BN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22787,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563\/revisions\/22787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}