{"id":7847,"date":"2023-09-12T08:49:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T07:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2023-11-13T08:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T08:35:52","slug":"jon-baldursson-1952-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/2023\/09\/12\/jon-baldursson-1952-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"J\u00f3n Baldursson (1952-2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7848\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bald.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bald-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>The European Bridge Community is deeply saddened to hear of the death of J\u00f3n Baldursson fom Iceland.<br \/>\nJ\u00f3n was a player of the Iceland team that won the Bermuda Bowl in Yokohama in 1991 and was part of the Iceland\/Great Britain team that won the 1st World Mixed Team Championship in Rhodes in 1996. He won the 2nd Generali World Open Individual Championship in Paris in 1994.<br \/>\nA European Grand Master and World Life Master, J\u00f3n had played more than 600 international matches representing Iceland and was their highest ranked player and a wonderful ambassador for bridge.<br \/>\nJ\u00f3n was inducted into the EBL Hall of Fame in 2019.<br \/>\nOur deepest condolences to J\u00f3n\u2019s family, friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Bridge Community is deeply saddened to hear of the death of J\u00f3n Baldursson fom Iceland. J\u00f3n was a player of the Iceland team that won the Bermuda Bowl in Yokohama in 1991 and was part of the Iceland\/Great Britain team that won the 1st World Mixed Team Championship in Rhodes in 1996. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gone-but-not-forgotten"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}