{"id":1402,"date":"2018-11-26T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2018-11-26T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:45:13","slug":"frederik-pohl-at-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/frederik-pohl-at-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederik Pohl at 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Fred-Pohl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-904\" src=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Fred-Pohl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Today, November 26, is Frederik Pohl&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Pohl pretty much did everything in the field a person could do except art.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not aware of him engaging in any visually artistic activities.\u00a0 He was a fan (member of the Futurians), editor of both pulps and books, agent, and writer.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up reading Pohl.\u00a0 <em>The Best of Frederik Pohl<\/em> was one of the first books I bought when I joined the Science Fiction Book Club the summer before I started high school.\u00a0 Most of his other collections were out of print at the time but easily available in second hand bookstores.\u00a0 Ah, those were the days.<\/p>\n<p>I always preferred Pohl&#8217;s short fiction to his novels, but he was excellent at all lengths.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t read <em>Gateway<\/em>, you should.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll raise a glass in his memory tonight and try to work in a short story if I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, November 26, is Frederik Pohl&#8217;s birthday. Pohl pretty much did everything in the field a person could do except art.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not aware of him engaging in any visually artistic activities.\u00a0 He was a fan (member of the Futurians), editor of both pulps and books, agent, and writer. I grew up reading Pohl.\u00a0 The [&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":[296,102],"tags":[775,664],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","category-fred-pohl","tag-birthday","tag-frederik-pohl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-mC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","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=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}