{"id":64433,"date":"2017-09-11T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64433"},"modified":"2017-09-09T00:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T05:47:35","slug":"rip-jerry-pournelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64433","title":{"rendered":"RIP Jerry Pournelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never much cared for science fiction. \u00a0Not sure why &#8211; it just never took for me.<\/p>\n<p>The exception was always Jerry Pournelle &#8211; pretty much the only person who ever wrote sci-fi that ever grabbed me.<\/p>\n<p>That goes back almost forty years, to reading, among others,\u00a0<em>Lucifer&#8217;s Hammer\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; a book that probably grabbed me in the same way\u00a0<em>The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>does today.<\/p>\n<p>There was more; fifteen years ago, during the heyday of the blog, Pournelle had an influential site &#8211; and he read and frequently llinked to\u00a0<em>Shot In The Dark<\/em>;\u00a0I&#8217;m not sure if any of you in my audience today found me through Pournelle, but I know he gave me a good boost in traffic back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; rest in peace, Jerry Pournelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never much cared for science fiction. \u00a0Not sure why &#8211; it just never took for me. The exception was always Jerry Pournelle &#8211; pretty much the only person who ever wrote sci-fi that ever grabbed me. That goes back almost forty years, to reading, among others,\u00a0Lucifer&#8217;s Hammer\u00a0&#8211; a book that probably grabbed me in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64434,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64433\/revisions\/64434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}