{"id":267,"date":"2007-09-17T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/17\/robert-jordan-fantasist-dies-at-58\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T20:17:27","slug":"robert-jordan-fantasist-dies-at-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Robert Jordan, fantasist, dies at 58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/robertjordan.jpg\" title=\"robertjordan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/robertjordan.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"robertjordan.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Robert Jordan, author of the popular fantasy <strong>Wheel of Time<\/strong> series, passed away on September 16th as a result of a rare blood disease.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/6999578.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News story<\/a>, Jordan&#8217;s personal assistant said: &#8220;the disease caused the walls of his heart to thicken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Robert Jordan and his books, take a look at his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_jordan\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia entry<\/a> or read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonmount.com\/RobertJordan\/\" target=\"_blank\">his blog<\/a> {his last post, in which he discusses &#8211; among other things &#8211; working through his condition, was dated August 22nd.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Jordan, author of the popular fantasy Wheel of Time series, passed away on September 16th as a result of a rare blood disease. According to a BBC News story, Jordan&#8217;s personal assistant said: &#8220;the disease caused the walls of his heart to thicken.&#8221; For more information on Robert Jordan and his books, take a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-4j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}