{"id":10683,"date":"2014-01-02T22:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T06:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2014-01-02T22:08:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T06:08:54","slug":"in-memoriam-thank-you-whit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/02\/in-memoriam-thank-you-whit\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Thank you, Whit."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Whit\"<\/p>\n

I remain, as do so many people in the extended Adobe family, in sad disbelief at the passing of our dear friend Whitney McCleary<\/a>\u2014warm wit, defender of the little guy, fighter for what\u2019s right, twinkling soul\u2014on New Year\u2019s Eve following a long illness.<\/p>\n

I struggle to find the right words\u2014any words, really\u2014to share here, and yet I just don\u2019t feel like writing about anything else for a while. I think she wouldn\u2019t want us to dwell too long in sorrow\u2014I think instead of good Irish wakes, full of laughter and tears\u2014but it\u2019s right to pause for just a bit.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you didn\u2019t know Whit personally, but if you\u2019ve spent any time as an Adobe customer, she probably touched your life in some small, positive way. To say just that she marketed InDesign, Creative Suite, and imaging apps seems like absurdly short shrift. As folks are pouring onto Facebook to say, Whitney was always quick to take a chance, support a new creative conference, find work for a promising designer. Her love of creative people & delight in helping them was infectious.<\/p>\n

Big companies are inherently bonkers, I think, and I\u2019d always look to Whitney to cut through fog & silliness. As my old Photoshop boss Maria puts it, “I don’t know what we’ll do when we can’t call her mobile in a crisis. I keep thinking ‘What would Whit do?’ and a silly smile comes to my face.”<\/p>\n

Oh, Whit\u2014we miss you terribly. Thank you for making things better, for so many people over so many years. May we all aspire to do the same, with even half the good cheer you did. God bless.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remain, as do so many people in the extended Adobe family, in sad disbelief at the passing of our dear friend Whitney McCleary\u2014warm wit, defender of the little guy, fighter for what\u2019s right, twinkling soul\u2014on New Year\u2019s Eve following a long illness. I struggle to find the right words\u2014any words, really\u2014to share here, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}