{"id":103,"date":"2008-07-06T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-07-06T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T20:27:54","slug":"r-i-p-thomas-m-disch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/r-i-p-thomas-m-disch\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Thomas M. Disch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/010413.html\">Making Light<\/a> that Thomas M. Disch, the author of <i>334<\/i> and <i>On Wings of Song<\/i> &#8212; two of the best works of SF I&#8217;ve ever read &#8212; killed himself two days ago. Damn. Fucking damn it. Yes, he was a bastard sometimes, particularly lately, but he wrote some amazing stuff that spoke of a larger spirit and artistic sensibility than most people ever know. I wish he had had a better life.<\/p>\n<p>ETA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/08\/books\/08disch.html\">NY Times Obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned from Making Light that Thomas M. Disch, the author of 334 and On Wings of Song &#8212; two of the best works of SF I&#8217;ve ever read &#8212; killed himself two days ago. Damn. Fucking damn it. Yes, he was a bastard sometimes, particularly lately, but he wrote some amazing stuff that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}