{"id":127,"date":"2003-07-01T06:47:20","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=127"},"modified":"2003-07-01T06:47:20","modified_gmt":"2003-07-01T12:47:20","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/07\/01\/blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A notable author noted my website!<\/p>\n<p>Well, he may not be the most well known author, but he&#8217;s written some real gems.  The author in question is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joecliffordfaust.com\">Joe Clifford Faust<\/a>, author of <u>The Company Man<\/u> and <u>Ferman&#8217;s Devils<\/u>.  He apparently found my other website, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ryumaou.com\/hoffman\/netgeek\/\">Diary of a Network Geek<\/a>, where <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ryumaou.com\/hoffman\/netgeek\/archives\/2003_05.html#000164\">I mention him briefly<\/a>.  I have to admit, until I wrote that little entry, I hadn&#8217;t thought about <u>The Company Man <\/u>in a very long time.  But, it was a good book, which I still have, and well worth finding, if you haven&#8217;t read it.  Come to think of it, so is everything else I&#8217;ve read by Mr. Faust.  So, go buy his books and maybe the old stuff will come back into print.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was a small thrill to be found by a Real Writer and exchange e-mail with him.  Always is for me.  Writers are my celebrities.  God, I&#8217;m a geek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A notable author noted my website! Well, he may not be the most well known author, but he&#8217;s written some real gems. The author in question is Joe Clifford Faust, author of The Company Man and Ferman&#8217;s Devils. He apparently found my other website, Diary of a Network Geek, where I mention him briefly. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,30],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-personal","category-science-fiction","tag-joe-clifford-faust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}