{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Looked up two of my college professors including my official advisor and they were both recently dead, which made me realize...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/174967316278/", "html": "<p>Looked up two of my college professors including my official advisor and they were both recently dead, which made me realize that I didn\u2019t really have any experience with the death of a father figure</p><p>(both my grandfathers were perfectly serviceable \u201cold man\u201d archetypes, that people associated with me for impenetrably arbitrary reasons. With time I could readback some influence on my parents, though why <i>they</i> paid them any attention I\u2019ll never know)</p><p>Looked up <a href=\"/post/96390732283/\" target=\"_blank\">my unofficial advisor</a> tho and he\u2019s still going at just 78, younger than my actual father, so<br/></p>"}