{"id":698,"date":"2018-05-22T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T17:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/?p=698"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T20:03:02","slug":"robert-byler-jr-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/2018\/05\/22\/robert-byler-jr-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Byler Jr. &#8217;52"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are sorry to inform you that Dr. Robert Harris Byler. Jr. (Bob Byler) &#8217;52, passed away Saturday, April 28, succumbing to cancer. \u00a0He was 87. Byler was known the world over or his lifelong love of jazz, especially Dixieland. As a journalist, he wrote in The Mississippi Rag for decades and other publications and into his twilight years for the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Venice Gondolier Sun<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as he followed the local jazz scene on the SunCoast. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Bob-Byler-picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-699 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Bob-Byler-picture-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Bob-Byler-picture-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Bob-Byler-picture-768x919.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Bob-Byler-picture-856x1024.jpg 856w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/files\/2018\/05\/Bob-Byler-picture.jpg 1407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">He will be deeply missed by all those whose lives he touched.<\/p>\n<p>Read his full obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/washingtonpost\/obituary.aspx?fhid=32234&amp;n=robert-byler&amp;pid=188969949\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sorry to inform you that Dr. Robert Harris Byler. Jr. (Bob Byler) &#8217;52, passed away Saturday, April 28, succumbing to cancer. \u00a0He was 87. Byler was known the world over or his lifelong love of jazz, especially Dixieland. As a journalist, he wrote in The Mississippi Rag for decades and other publications and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1950sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}