{"id":552,"date":"2005-12-12T18:05:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=552"},"modified":"2005-12-12T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T20:24:36","slug":"rip-robert-sheckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/12\/12\/rip-robert-sheckley\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Robert Sheckley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Sheckley died on Friday.<br \/>\nI just saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/12\/09\/robert_sheckley_has_.html\">news today via BoingBoing<\/a>, but I felt it was important enough to mention.  Sheckley was the master of science-fiction comedy and commentary in a single form.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=fantasistnet%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0839824408%2526tag=fantasistnet%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0839824408%25253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\">The 10th Victim<\/a> was one of the best books I&#8217;ve ever read, and not just because of the infamous brassiere-gun,  and even is credited for spawning the Assasination Game, among other things.<br \/>\nHe was a wondeful author and will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Sheckley died on Friday. I just saw the news today via BoingBoing, but I felt it was important enough to mention. Sheckley was the master of science-fiction comedy and commentary in a single form. The 10th Victim was one of the best books I&#8217;ve ever read, and not just because of the infamous brassiere-gun, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[36,16,1,14,24],"tags":[726],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-authors","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-general","category-news-and-current-events","category-things-to-read","tag-robert-sheckley-robert-sheckley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}