{"id":522,"date":"2008-03-21T07:44:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2008-03-21T07:44:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T12:44:14","slug":"author-jon-hassler-dies-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Author Jon Hassler dies at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jon Hassler, who &#8220;suffered from a longtime neurological disorder,&#8221; died Thursday at the age of 74, according to the <span style=\"cursor:hand;border-bottom:#0066cc 1px dashed;\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Associated Press<\/span> (via <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.shelf-awareness.com\/ct.jsp?uz2933121Biz6552502\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\"><font color=\"#003399\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/font><\/span><\/a><em>), which noted that, despite his deteriorating health, the author of Staggerford and other novels about small-town life &#8220;continued work on a book, Jay O&#8217;Malley, until his death.&#8221;<\/em><em>In a 1995 AP interview, Hassler said &#8220;he liked writing about misfits. &#8216;You can&#8217;t write a novel about somebody w<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/rookery-blues.gif\" title=\"rookery-blues.gif\"><\/a>ho&#8217;s per<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/deans-list.gif\" title=\"deans-list.gif\"><\/a>fectly happy.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/deans-list.gif\" title=\"deans-list.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/deans-list.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"deans-list.gif\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/rookery-blues.gif\" title=\"rookery-blues.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/rookery-blues.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"rookery-blues.gif\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Years ago I read two of his works : Dean&#8217;s List and Rookery Blues. The main character in both is a college professor, much like the author himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Hassler, who &#8220;suffered from a longtime neurological disorder,&#8221; died Thursday at the age of 74, according to the Associated Press (via USA Today), which noted that, despite his deteriorating health, the author of Staggerford and other novels about small-town life &#8220;continued work on a book, Jay O&#8217;Malley, until his death.&#8221;In a 1995 AP interview,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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-522","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-8q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}