{"id":1139,"date":"2006-03-02T18:38:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T18:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2006-03-02T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T18:38:26","slug":"gone_but_not_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"Gone But Not Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death was definitely not on holiday over the past weekend.  Darren McGavin<\/A>, aka Kolchak the Night Stalker<\/A>, departed.  I’ve only seen a few episodes of that series; incredibly campy but McGavin lent it a curmudgeonly sort of charm.  We also lost Don Knotts<\/A> and Dennis Weaver<\/A>.  But the death that saddened me the most was that of Octavia Butler.  One of the few African-American women writing in the science fiction genre, Butler authored some impressive books.  Her Parable of the Sower<\/A> and Parable of the Talents<\/A> were two books that transcended the traditional constraints of the genre to explore issues of gender, race, religious fanaticism, and forgiveness. She also wrote a Hugo Award-winning short story back in the 80s entitled “Speech Sounds,” one of those stories that continues to live in my head years after I first read it.  <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
<\/FONT><\/SPAN> <\/DIV>
Butler recently published a new book, Fledgling<\/A>, which was receiving good reviews.  It’s a shame that we won’t get the opportunity to read any of the other works that she might have been planning.  <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Death was definitely not on holiday over the past weekend.  Darren McGavin, aka Kolchak the Night Stalker, departed.  I’ve only seen a few episodes of that series; incredibly campy but McGavin lent it a curmudgeonly sort of charm.  We also lost Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver.  But the death that saddened me the most was that of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-in","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}