{"id":51493,"date":"2026-04-07T18:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51493"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:53:20","slug":"john-martellaro-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/07\/john-martellaro-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"John Martellaro, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geektells.com\/john-martellaro-remembrance\/\">Bryan Chaffin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/geektells.com\/john-martellaro-remembrance\/\">\n<p>He rose to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Air Force, and he was a NASA scientist. He worked for years at Apple, and most importantly to me, he was a columnist and the voice of reason and humanity at <em>The Mac Observer<\/em>. He wrote SciFi and a variety of tech columns for several other Mac sites, too.<\/p>\n<p>John was kind, smart, logical, and always reasonable. He was both considerate and considered. Every word that came out of his mouth had a reason to be there and a place to go. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jgamet.bsky.social\/post\/3mhwsnq5mzy2r\">Jeff Gamet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jgamet.bsky.social\/post\/3mhwsnq5mzy2r\">\n<p>He&rsquo;s the guy behind the space shuttle landing simulator I played on an Apple II. He also wrote fantastic analysis pieces and interviewed wonderfully interesting people for his podcast back when we worked together at The Mac Observer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>He wrote for many Mac publications. Just his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/?author_name=john-martellaro\">author page at <em>TMO<\/em><\/a> has 83 pages of article summaries.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Chaffin: He rose to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Air Force, and he was a NASA scientist. He worked for years at Apple, and most importantly to me, he was a columnist and the voice of reason and humanity at The Mac Observer. He wrote SciFi and a variety of tech columns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-04-07T22:53:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"5a9abdf5-7b53-4283-9269-bd490d2fa999","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-04-07T22:53:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWpq99XtTQoOSab1JDS-pmQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[406,30,208,994],"class_list":["post-51493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appleii","tag-mac","tag-rip","tag-media"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51494,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51493\/revisions\/51494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}