{"id":1087,"date":"2007-09-17T08:12:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T13:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/09\/17\/robert-jordan-is-dead-alas\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T08:12:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T13:12:43","slug":"robert-jordan-is-dead-alas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Robert Jordan is Dead, Alas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Rigney, who wrote under the name Robert Jordan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2007\/sep\/17\/robert_jordan_dies_at_age16247\/\">died yesterday from amyloidosis<\/a>. He&#8217;d been ill for a while, but his death still came as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>I never read the Wheel of Time books. Somehow I missed starting the series, and only found out about it some three or four books in. At that point I thought, well, I&#8217;ll just wait until he&#8217;s done to start reading them.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite reminiscence I&#8217;ve read so far is from George R. R. Martin, who was the Toastmaster at a convention where Jordan was the Guest of Honor. In introducing Jordan, Martin <a href=\"http:\/\/grrm.livejournal.com\/21250.html\">pretended that &#8220;Robert Jordan&#8221; was really him<\/a> and took credit for all of the Wheel of Time books.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, Jim Rigney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Rigney, who wrote under the name Robert Jordan, died yesterday from amyloidosis. He&#8217;d been ill for a while, but his death still came as a surprise. I never read the Wheel of Time books. Somehow I missed starting the series, and only found out about it some three or four books in. At that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Jordan is Dead, Alas<\/span> <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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}