{"id":1782,"date":"2007-12-12T19:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2007-12-12T19:00:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T19:00:44","slug":"death_you_basta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Death, You Bastard, You Can’t Have Him Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, fuck. Terry Pratchett, the author of the renowned Discworld series and whose books I discovered not too long ago, has been diagnosed with an early form of Alzheimer’s<\/a>. His open letter<\/a> to his fans is a more whimsical take on the typical British stiff-upper-lip regard for bad news and I truly hope his cautious optimism is justified. Everything I’ve heard about him indicates that he’s as brilliant and humane in real life as he is on paper. There’s an alarming shortage of decent, brilliant people in the world, so I’m going wish him the best and add more of his books<\/a> to my reading list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, fuck. Terry Pratchett, the author of the renowned Discworld series and whose books I discovered not too long ago, has been diagnosed with an early form of Alzheimer’s. His open letter to his fans is a more whimsical take on the typical British stiff-upper-lip regard for bad news and I truly hope his cautious […]<\/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-1782","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-sK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","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=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}