{"id":6198,"date":"2025-03-27T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:09:02","slug":"uw-astrobiology-remembers-professor-james-t-staley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/27\/uw-astrobiology-remembers-professor-james-t-staley\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Astrobiology Remembers Professor James T. Staley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UW Astrobiology program remembers our founding Director, Jim Staley. Jim came to the University of Washington in 1971 as a professor of microbiology. He was devoted to seeking scientific truth and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, leading him to become the founding Director of the UW Astrobiology program from 1998-2005. Jim supported the program through research, mentorship, and leadership, and we will be forever grateful for his contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Jim&#8217;s life in the Seattle Times obituary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/obituaries.seattletimes.com\/obituary\/james-staley-1090692743\">https:\/\/obituaries.seattletimes.com\/obituary\/james-staley-1090692743<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UW Astrobiology program remembers our founding Director, Jim Staley. Jim came to the University of Washington in 1971 as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6200,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions\/6200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}