{"id":6257,"date":"2024-08-06T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2024-08-06T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T22:05:00","slug":"martin-szinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/06\/martin-szinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Szinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Martin Szinger (54), of Westerlo, NY, passed away on Sunday, August 4, 2024 of a sudden and unexpected heart attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin attended Kenmore East High School where his passion for gaming began. He went on to attend the University at Buffalo, NY, where he received a Master\u2019s Degree in Electrical Engineering. Martin worked as a software engineer by profession and loved his work in the video game industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was also an accomplished musician and songwriter who played the guitar and saxophone, most as recently a proud member of the East Berne Band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many of the connections he made were through the things he loved most; hiking, camping, beekeeping, building, traveling, and, most of all, being a dad. Martin had a special relationship with his children and his world revolved around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His loving spirit is carried on by his wife Kathleen; his children Charles, Matthew, Abigail and Eleanor; parents Frank and Eva Szinger; brothers James (Una) Szinger and John (Jeannie) Szinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Szinger (54), of Westerlo, NY, passed away on Sunday, August 4, 2024 of a sudden and unexpected heart attack. Martin attended Kenmore East High School where his passion for gaming began. He went on to attend the University at Buffalo, NY, where he received a Master\u2019s Degree in Electrical Engineering. Martin worked as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/06\/martin-szinger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Martin Szinger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6258,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions\/6258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}