{"id":5169,"date":"2025-12-17T08:52:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2025-12-17T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:52:27","slug":"robert-j-samuelson-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2025\/12\/17\/robert-j-samuelson-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert J. Samuelson &#8217;63"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2025\/12\/Robert-Samuelson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2025\/12\/Robert-Samuelson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2025\/12\/Robert-Samuelson.jpg 204w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2025\/12\/Robert-Samuelson-202x250.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Robert J. Samuelson, an economics columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post died on Saturday, December 13, 2025, in Bethesda, Md. He was 79.  <br><br>His death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of Parkinson\u2019s disease, his daughter, Ruth Samuelson, said.<br><br>Mr. Samuelson married Judy Herr in 1983. In addition to his wife and daughter, Ruth, he is survived by two sons, Michael and John; a brother, Richard; and two grandchildren.<br><br>To read Mr. Samuelson&#8217;s complete obituary, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/15\/business\/media\/robert-samuelson-dead.html\" title=\"\">New York Times<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert J. Samuelson, an economics columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post died on Saturday, December 13, 2025, in Bethesda, Md. He was 79. His death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of Parkinson\u2019s disease, his daughter, Ruth Samuelson, said. Mr. Samuelson married Judy Herr in 1983. In addition to his wife and daughter, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2025\/12\/17\/robert-j-samuelson-63\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert J. Samuelson &#8217;63<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[217,63],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-class-of-1963","tag-williston-academy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5172,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}