{"id":1394,"date":"2018-10-29T12:20:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:20:43","slug":"happy-birthday-fredric-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/happy-birthday-fredric-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Fredric Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fredric-Brown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1395 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fredric-Brown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a>Fredric Brown was born on this date, October 29, in 1906.\u00a0 He passed away in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Brown was equally adept at both science fiction and mystery.\u00a0 In the SF field, he was regarded as a master of the short-short.\u00a0 His Mystery novel <em>The Fabuloous Clip Joint<\/em> won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel.\u00a0 His best known SF novels are <em>What Mad Universe<\/em> and <em>Martians, Go Home<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be raising a toast to his memory this evening and reading some of his short fiction.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t\u00a0 know if I&#8217;ll read sf or mystery, since he was great at both.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll read some of each.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve not read him, check his stuff out.\u00a0 Brown is worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fredric Brown was born on this date, October 29, in 1906.\u00a0 He passed away in 1972. Brown was equally adept at both science fiction and mystery.\u00a0 In the SF field, he was regarded as a master of the short-short.\u00a0 His Mystery novel The Fabuloous Clip Joint won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel.\u00a0 His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[296],"tags":[775,849],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","tag-birthday","tag-fredric-brown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-mu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}