{"id":12617,"date":"2014-06-01T09:38:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T14:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12617"},"modified":"2015-01-04T12:36:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T18:36:03","slug":"jay-lake-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12617","title":{"rendered":"Jay Lake, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlake.com\/2014\/06\/01\/cancer-the-end-has-come\/\">Jay Lake lost his long, well-documented fight with cancer today.<\/a>  He was 5 days shy of his 50th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>I saw Jay at the San Antonio Worldcon. When he rolled up in his scooter, I went &#8220;Jay, you know the same conversation you&#8217;ve already had with every one of your friends this weekend? Let&#8217;s just pretend we already had that conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was a swell guy and a good writer who will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually about to go off and visit a relative recovering from cancer in the hospital, which is one reason this is so brief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.oregonlive.com\/books_impact\/photo\/10835129-large.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Lake lost his long, well-documented fight with cancer today. He was 5 days shy of his 50th birthday. I saw Jay at the San Antonio Worldcon. When he rolled up in his scooter, I went &#8220;Jay, you know the same conversation you&#8217;ve already had with every one of your friends this weekend? Let&#8217;s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1542,350,597,1970],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-cancer","tag-jay-lake","tag-obituary","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12623,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions\/12623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}