{"id":1608,"date":"2020-07-16T20:39:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T01:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2020-07-16T20:39:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T01:39:22","slug":"thoughts-on-robert-sheckley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/thoughts-on-robert-sheckley\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Robert Sheckley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Robert-Sheckley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1609 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Robert-Sheckley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) was born on this date, July 16. Sheckley worked at all lengths, but he is probably best remembered for his short stories.\u00a0 They tended to be witty and satirical.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to review a story because I&#8217;ve spent most of the day getting an online exam ready and trying to calm some nervous students. Not that I blame them. Summer classes move fast, this course is challenging in a normal semester, and the online format isn&#8217;t helping. I haven&#8217;t had time to read one.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of that, I want to make note of the occasion. Sheckley was an important writer who deserves to be remembered.<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate enough to meet him the year he died. He was a guest at ConDFW in February of that year. This was only a few weeks before he traveled to the Ukraine and fell ill. After returning home, he died in December.<\/p>\n<p>I remember sitting around a table in a small conference room where he read one of his stories. There couldn&#8217;t have been more than a dozen of us in the room. I was rather surprised there weren&#8217;t more people there. He&#8217;d recently had a story published in an anthology, which he was gracious enough to sign for me along with a couple of collections I had brought with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) was born on this date, July 16. Sheckley worked at all lengths, but he is probably best remembered for his short stories.\u00a0 They tended to be witty and satirical. I&#8217;m not going to review a story because I&#8217;ve spent most of the day getting an online exam ready and trying to calm [&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":[775,881],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","tag-birthday","tag-robert-sheckley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-pW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","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=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}