{"id":8285,"date":"2012-06-06T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T14:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2012-06-06T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T14:27:17","slug":"sad-news-ray-bradbury-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=8285","title":{"rendered":"Sad News: Ray Bradbury RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5916175\/rip-ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-the-martian-chronicles\">science fiction legend Ray Bradbury has passed away at 91<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Bradbury was one of the few unquestioned giants of the field. Personally, if I hadn&#8217;t read <b>The Illustrated Man<\/b> at an early age, I may never have become a science fiction writer. I corresponded with him a tiny bit, and once I got a phone call from him (in response to a letter) talking about meeting in person at the Anaheim Worldcon in 2006. Alas, my flight flew out before his one appearance at the convention, so I never got a chance to meet him face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing reports that science fiction legend Ray Bradbury has passed away at 91. Bradbury was one of the few unquestioned giants of the field. Personally, if I hadn&#8217;t read The Illustrated Man at an early age, I may never have become a science fiction writer. I corresponded with him a tiny bit, and once [&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":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,5],"tags":[1973,1983,597,716,1970],"class_list":["post-8285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-obituary","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285","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=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8289,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions\/8289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}