{"id":1633,"date":"2020-12-01T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2020-12-01T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T22:20:00","slug":"rip-ben-bova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/rip-ben-bova\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Ben Bova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ben-Bova.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1634 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ben-Bova-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ben-Bova-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ben-Bova.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>Science fiction author and editor Ben Bova has passed away from COVID related pneumonia and a stroke. Bova was born on in 1932. He was 88. In addition being the author of a number of series (Grand Tour, Sam Gunn, Orion, among others) Bova had the unenviable task of assuming the editorship of <em>Analog<\/em> after the death of John W. Campbell, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Bova&#8217;s fiction tended to be hard science fiction, although he wrote quite a bit of humorous sf. He will be missed. <em>Futures Past and Present<\/em> extends condolences to his family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction author and editor Ben Bova has passed away from COVID related pneumonia and a stroke. Bova was born on in 1932. He was 88. In addition being the author of a number of series (Grand Tour, Sam Gunn, Orion, among others) Bova had the unenviable task of assuming the editorship of Analog after [&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":[12],"tags":[867,760],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary","tag-ben-bova","tag-obituary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-ql","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","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=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}