{"id":924,"date":"2013-02-18T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/18\/life-and-love-really-do-continue-on\/"},"modified":"2013-02-18T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T16:17:00","slug":"life-and-love-really-do-continue-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/18\/life-and-love-really-do-continue-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and Love Really Do Continue On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the bearer of sad news for The Magical Buffet community.  On February 13th David Pitkin passed away.  Pitkin was the <a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2006\/10\/31\/the-art-of-telling-a-ghost-story\/\"target=\"_blank\">very first guest author to contribute to The Magical Buffet<\/a>, and more recently he was one of the participants at <a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2010\/09\/15\/a-magical-buffet-of-authors-wrap-up\/\"target=\"_blank\">The Magical Buffet of Authors event.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8079\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/david-pitkin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/david-pitkin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8079\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pitkin speaking at Magical Buffet of Authors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>David Pitkin is the author of numerous books such as New York State Ghosts Vol. 1 &#038; 2, Ghosts of the Northeast, and Haunted Warren County.  You can find, and buy, his books <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterworld.info\/id2.html\"target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&#038;field-keywords=david+pitkin\"target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.  Thanks to his wonderful and prolific writing, Pitkin was often a guest speaker at book stores, libraries, and paranormal conventions.  <\/p>\n<p>David Pitkin was such a special man.  I saw him at a book signing that had three people in attendance and speaking at a paranormal expo with 50 or more people, and he treated each group the same.  Like each and every one of them was the most special person in the room.  That&#8217;s how he treated every person, like they were the most important person in the room.  He was charming to the Nth degree.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8082\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/david-pitkin-and-rebecca.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/david-pitkin-and-rebecca-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8082\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pitkin and I sharing a special conversation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pitkin would often sign his books with Life and Love Really Do Continue On. In David Pitkin&#8217;s case I have no doubt that it&#8217;s true.  The legacy he leaves behind of quality ghost folklore and the magic he brought to the lives he touched will absolutely carry on.<\/p>\n<p>David Pitkin had a long life of wearing many hats.  You can learn more from reading his obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/lifestyles\/announcements\/obituaries\/david-j-pitkin\/article_2179ca3a-765b-11e2-87b8-001a4bcf887a.html\"target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magical Buffet says goodbye to a special member of our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}