{"id":71,"date":"2011-06-26T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/rip-martin-h-greenberg\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T02:42:00","slug":"rip-martin-h-greenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/rip-martin-h-greenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Martin H. Greenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">Dean Wesley Smith is reporting that Martin H. Greenberg passed away this  morning after a long illness.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever picked up an anthology is  the last twenty or thirty years, there&#8217;s a good chance his name was on  the cover, usually following the name of a well known author or editor.\u00a0  (Isaac Asimov comes to mind as the most prominent, but he was far from  the only one.)\u00a0 If the anthology was published by DAW books, then his  name was almost certainly on the cover.\u00a0 Greenberg was the publisher of  Tekno Books, one of the leading book packagers in the world.\u00a0 (A  packager puts the project together, then sells it to publisher.)\u00a0 While  his work was often behind the scenes, he was a major player in fantasy  and science fiction publishing, as well as a number of other genres.\u00a0 I  never met Mr. Greenberg, but I&#8217;ve always heard only good things about  him.\u00a0 His passing is a major loss to the science fiction and fantasy  fields.\u00a0 Think of him the next time you read one of the anthologies he  put together.\u00a0 Dean Wesley Smith worked with Greenberg and has written a  moving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanwesleysmith.com\/?p=4649\">eulogy<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Wesley Smith is reporting that Martin H. Greenberg passed away this morning after a long illness.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever picked up an anthology is the last twenty or thirty years, there&#8217;s a good chance his name was on the cover, usually following the name of a well known author or editor.\u00a0 (Isaac Asimov comes [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dean-wesley-smith","category-martin-h-greenberg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-19","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}