{"id":201,"date":"2009-02-25T17:20:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:20:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:44:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:44:38","slug":"rip-philip-jose-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"RIP Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apparently <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.pjfarmer.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pjfarmer.com\/\">Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer died this morning<\/a>  (via <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/02\/25\/rip-philip-jose-farm.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/02\/25\/rip-philip-jose-farm.html\">boingboing<\/a>).  Farmer has been one of my favorite (Up there with <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Gibson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Gibson\">William Gibson<\/a> and <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kim_Stanley_Robinson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kim_Stanley_Robinson\">Kim Stanely Robinson<\/a>) SciFi authors for some time, his <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riverworld\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riverworld\">Riverworld<\/a> series is arguably one of the best efforts in world building ever, and is a wonderful widely allusive piece in it&#8217;s own right.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve heard it advanced in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way that people go to whatever afterlife they believe in; if so I&#8217;ll see you at the grailstone &#8220;<a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Jairus_Frigate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Jairus_Frigate\">Peter Jairus Frigate<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer died this morning (via boingboing). Farmer has been one of my favorite (Up there with William Gibson and Kim Stanely Robinson) SciFi authors for some time, his Riverworld series is arguably one of the best efforts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-literature","category-oldblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}