{"id":20213,"date":"2015-03-12T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20213"},"modified":"2015-03-12T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T22:59:03","slug":"death-takes-sir-terry-of-discworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/death-takes-sir-terry-of-discworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Death takes Sir Terry of Discworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/13\/books\/terry-pratchett-popular-fantasy-novelist-dies-at-66.html\" target=\"_blank\">AT LAST WE MEET, SIR TERRY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecluemeter.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/wotcher-sir-terry.html\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given that he had a rare form of early onset Alzheimers, his death at 66 may have been a mercy. But damn. He was the best. The best since Mark Twain. Maybe (we could argue about this) better.<\/p>\n<p>ADDED: It bugs me that the obits are calling Pratchett a &#8220;fantasy novelist.&#8221; That&#8217;s like calling Twain a &#8220;writer of adventure stories for boys.&#8221; Pratchett&#8217;s books, especially the Discworld series, are hilarious social and political satires that just happen to be set in a world populated by vampires, trolls, golems, witches, werewolves, one six-foot-tall dwarf, and let&#8217;s not forget that terribly scruffy talking dog, <a href=\"http:\/\/thecluemeter.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/wotcher-sir-terry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gaspode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT LAST WE MEET, SIR TERRY. More. Given that he had a rare form of early onset Alzheimers, his death at 66 may have been a mercy. But damn. He was the best. The best since Mark Twain. Maybe (we could argue about this) better. ADDED: It bugs me that the obits are calling Pratchett a &#8220;fantasy novelist.&#8221; That&#8217;s like calling Twain a &#8220;writer of adventure stories for boys.&#8221; Pratchett&#8217;s books, especially the Discworld series, are hilarious social and political satires that just happen to be set in a world populated by vampires, trolls, golems, witches, werewolves, one six-foot-tall dwarf,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/death-takes-sir-terry-of-discworld\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death takes Sir Terry of Discworld<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}