{"id":16812,"date":"2017-12-05T21:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=16812"},"modified":"2017-12-05T21:06:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:06:59","slug":"sad-news-bill-crider-enters-hospice-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=16812","title":{"rendered":"Sad News: Bill Crider Enters Hospice Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well <a href=\"https:\/\/billcrider.blogspot.com\/2017\/12\/update.html\">this plain sucks<\/a>. Bill Crider&#8217;s cancer has stopped responding to treatment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Things could change, but I suspect this will be my final post on the blog.  I met with some doctors at M. D. Anderson today, and they suggested that I enter hospice care.  A few weeks, a few months is about all I have left.  The blog has been a tremendous source of pleasure to me over the years, and I&#8217;ve made a lot of friends here.  My only regret is  that I have several unreviewed books, including Lawrence Block&#8217; fine new anthology, Alive in Shape and Color, and Max Allan Collins&#8217; latest collaboration with Mickey Spillane, The Last Stand,  which is a collection of two novellas, &#8220;A Bullet for Satisfaction,&#8221; an early Spillane manuscript with an interesting history, and &#8220;The Last Stand,&#8221; the last thing that Spillane completed.  It saddens me to think of all the great books by many writers that I&#8217;ll never read.  But I&#8217;ve had a great life, and my readers have been a big part of it.  Much love to you all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bill is a prince among men, a fixture at Texas science fiction conventions, and beloved by all. He will be deeply missed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1576.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1576-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1576\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1576-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1576-768x820.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1576-959x1024.jpg 959w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_1576.jpg 1977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this plain sucks. Bill Crider&#8217;s cancer has stopped responding to treatment: Things could change, but I suspect this will be my final post on the blog. I met with some doctors at M. D. Anderson today, and they suggested that I enter hospice care. A few weeks, a few months is about all I [&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":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[477,1973,1542,409,1970,464],"class_list":["post-16812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-bill-crider","tag-books","tag-cancer","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812","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=16812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16820,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions\/16820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}