{"id":7909,"date":"2023-11-09T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T12:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/?p=7909"},"modified":"2023-11-13T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T08:30:32","slug":"jafet-olafsson-1951-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/2023\/11\/09\/jafet-olafsson-1951-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Jafet \u00d3lafsson (1951 \u2013 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/news09-2-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/news09-2-239x300.jpg 239w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/news09-2-335x420.jpg 335w, http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/news09-2.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/>It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our friend and recent EC colleague, Jafet \u00d3lafsson from Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>Jafet joined the EBL Executive Committee in 2014 and retired in 2022. He was President of the Icelandic Bridge Federation from 2010 until 2022 and was a wonderful ambassador for Bridge both home and abroad. \u201cBridge makes life more pleasant\u201d was Jafet\u2019s favourite quote when promoting bridge.<br \/>\nJafet was a kind, thoughtful and multi-talented gentle man with a wide variety of interests \u2013 he will be greatly missed by many.<\/p>\n<p>We extend our sincere sympathies to his wife Hildur, their children Johanna, Sigri\u00f0i and Ari, and his wider family; also to his many friends and the members of the Icelandic bridge family.<br \/>\nMegi hann hv\u00edla \u00ed fri\u00f0i.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our friend and recent EC colleague, Jafet \u00d3lafsson from Iceland. Jafet joined the EBL Executive Committee in 2014 and retired in 2022. He was President of the Icelandic Bridge Federation from 2010 until 2022 and was a wonderful ambassador for Bridge both home and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7909","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\/7909","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=7909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eurobridge.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}