{"id":19661,"date":"2015-03-12T09:01:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T16:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19661"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:52:07","slug":"terry-pratchett-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19661","title":{"rendered":"Terry Pratchett Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/terry-pratchett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/terry-pratchett-590x388.jpg\" alt=\"terry-pratchett\" width=\"590\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/terry-pratchett-590x388.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/terry-pratchett.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science fiction and fantasy humor writer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terry_Pratchett\">Terry Pratchett<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-31858156\">died<\/a>. This is not unexpected as he has been ill for some time, but it&#8217;s still sad to see the end.<\/p>\n<p>As I said on my livejournal: I don&#8217;t believe in an afterlife, though I wish I did sometimes. I don&#8217;t believe in reincarnation, although I&#8217;d love for Terry Pratchett to get to come back as something ridiculous and awesome and wonderful. But I do believe in legacies, and he left wonderful books and humor, and I&#8217;m so glad to have them.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Night-Watch-Discworld-Terry-Pratchett\/dp\/0060013125\">Night Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Going-Postal-Discworld-Book-33-ebook\/dp\/B000W965QM\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1426176170&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=going+postal\">Going Postal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Small-Gods-Discworld-Terry-Pratchett-ebook\/dp\/B000QTEA3I\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1426176187&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=small+gods\">Small Gods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lords-Ladies-Discworld-Book-14-ebook\/dp\/B000TU16R2\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1426176206&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=lords+and+ladies\">Lords and Ladies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction and fantasy humor writer Terry Pratchett has died. This is not unexpected as he has been ill for some time, but it&#8217;s still sad to see the end. As I said on my livejournal: I don&#8217;t believe in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19671,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661\/revisions\/19671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}