{"id":1638,"date":"2020-12-18T21:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T03:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2020-12-18T21:20:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T03:20:55","slug":"besters-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/besters-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bester&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/alfred-bester.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1287 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/alfred-bester.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/alfred-bester.jpg 151w, http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/alfred-bester-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a>Today, December 18, is the birthday of Alfred Bester (1913-1987). I&#8217;ve not had a chance to read anything by him today. It has been all errands and running <s>amuck<\/s> around. Maybe sometime over the next week I can work something in.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want the day to pass unremarked, so I&#8217;m putting up this brief post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, December 18, is the birthday of Alfred Bester (1913-1987). I&#8217;ve not had a chance to read anything by him today. It has been all errands and running amuck around. Maybe sometime over the next week I can work something in. I didn&#8217;t want the day to pass unremarked, so I&#8217;m putting up this brief [&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":[505,296],"tags":[828,775],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alfred-bester","category-birthday","tag-alfred-bester","tag-birthday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-qq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","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=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}