{"id":2445313,"date":"2019-06-13T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/a-fine-young-man-gone-too-soon\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T08:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:18:14","slug":"a-fine-young-man-gone-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/a-fine-young-man-gone-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"A fine young man gone too soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We want to pay tribute to the young man, Alex Sills, who died in a motorcycle accident this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Just last week he served big slabs of pizza to my husband and me, regular visitors to Aspen, at New York Pizza. We remember his warm, friendly eyes and engaging smile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Commenting on our accents, he asked us if we were Australian (yes) and said he was born there, before moving to the U.S. when he was little. That he\u2019d lived in Philly and loved Colorado and still had relatives back in Western Australia. (They live in a suburb up the coast just a few kilometres from us.) We laughed about different colloquialisms in the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He was so bright and friendly, and left such a good impression, we\u2019ve since returned to New York Pizza, an eatery we\u2019d never been to before this Aspen visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We were shocked to read today that this bright and friendly person had died on Highway 82 on Tuesday, just a week after we\u2019d met him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Deepest sympathy to Alex\u2019s family, friends and the staff of New York Pizza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Jacqueline Lang and Peter Rigby<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Cottesloe , Western Australia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/a-fine-young-man-gone-too-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to pay tribute to the young man, Alex Sills, who died in a motorcycle accident this week. Just last week he served big slabs of pizza to my husband and me, regular visitors to Aspen, at New York Pizza. We remember his warm, friendly eyes and engaging smile. Commenting on our accents, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 17:46:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445331,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445313\/revisions\/2445331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}