{"id":1904,"date":"2021-06-26T21:40:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2021-06-27T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T17:30:32","slug":"william-b-robertsons-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/26\/william-b-robertsons-life\/","title":{"rendered":"William B. Robertson&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1852\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thumbnail_IMG_7368.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1852\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1852\" src=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thumbnail_IMG_7368-230x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Robertson at the podium: Bluefield State Library dedication\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. William B. Robertson 2019<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1907\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/206922315_10226896260418022_2236360572440170662_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1907\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1907\" src=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/206922315_10226896260418022_2236360572440170662_n-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"William B. Robertson with daughter Victoria, and Author Becky Crabtree\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William B. Robertson with daughter Victoria and Author Becky Crabtree<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_1848\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thumbnail_IMG_7452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1848\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1848\" src=\"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/thumbnail_IMG_7452-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bluefield State College Library Sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluefield State College Library Sign<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have had friends, good friends, in every chapter of my life, but some are special, extraordinarily special. Last Tuesday, I lost the man who I have worked with for over two years as we wrote his life story.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The final edits on his book were submitted last Thursday and he slipped quietly away Tuesday morning. I cherish my memories of him and will miss him dreadfully.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I feel I have walked for a while in the shadow of a superman, Mr. William Bernard Robertson.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are two published pieces about his life and death in the\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bdtonline.com\/news\/legendary-bsc-alumnus-william-b-robertson-dies-at-88\/article_8866bba0-d3c1-11eb-8f32-57a3207e9d09.html?fbclid=IwAR31D03rf_irBOw4w9lNx0hvtlaJY-8Wtn4flP86-7U8iJy9t-csU8zgb98\">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/roanoke.com\/opinion\/editorial\/editorial-former-roanoker-bill-robertson-made-history-in-virginia\/article_62e9ad10-d515-11eb-a7ed-8f38e425f0fa.html?fbclid=IwAR1m-yHAoRp7r5wLcxhK5lOD-Qp9wWs5MlSo4Sr91cQ90lat1JejU3CFhAc#utm_source=roanoke.com&amp;utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletter-templates%2Fnews-alert&amp;utm_medium=PostUp&amp;utm_content=7209933b7018297bdd113a4d94058222c3701121\">Roanoke Times<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had friends, good friends, in every chapter of my life, but some are special, extraordinarily special. Last Tuesday, I lost the man who I have worked with for over two years as we wrote his life story. The final edits on his book were submitted last Thursday and he slipped quietly away Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-william-b-robertson-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckycrabtree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}