{"id":3218,"date":"2010-01-31T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2017-09-22T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:12:32","slug":"r-i-p-kage-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2010\/01\/31\/r-i-p-kage-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Kage Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kage Baker has passed away this morning, from cancer.<\/p>\n<p>I was saddened to hear the news.  I did not know Kage well, but I had the chance to meet her a couple of years ago, when the two of us were Guests of Honor together at a small con in Madison, Wisconsin, and she was great company.  Lively, intelligent, good-humored, full of life.<\/p>\n<p>She was also a damn fine writer.  She contributed a Cugel the Clever story, &#8220;The Green Bird,&#8221; to SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH, the Jack Vance tribute anthology I co-edited with Gardner Dozois, and captured Cugel perfectly, no mean feat.  I would have loved to have had the chance to buy more stories from her for future anthologies.  <\/p>\n<p>Check out her books, if you&#8217;re not familiar with them.  Flowers and donations and tributes are all well and good, but I&#8217;ve always felt that the best way to remember any writer is to read their work.  Kage&#8217;s work deserves to be read and reread for many years to come.  It&#8217;s sad to think there won&#8217;t be any more of it.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, Kage.  We hardly knew ya. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kage Baker has passed away this morning, from cancer. I was saddened to hear the news. I did not know Kage well, but I had the chance to meet her a couple of years ago, when the two of us were Guests of Honor together at a small con in Madison, Wisconsin, and she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}