{"id":5199,"date":"2010-01-19T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2010-01-19T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:11:28","slug":"a-hero-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/a-hero-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hero, Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com.nyud.net\/entertainment\/books\/view.bg?articleid=1226710&#038;format=comments&#038;cnum=4\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Spenser\u2019 novelist Robert Parker dies at age 77<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRobert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his &#8220;Spenser&#8221; series, has died. He was 77.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve savaged his recent books in my book reports, but Parker remained a sort of estranged hero of mine from my boyhood.  I&#8217;m saddened by his departure, and the world is something less without him in it.<\/p>\n<p>(See my essay <a href=\"http:\/\/bullets-and-beer.com\/Signing2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Meeting Robert B. Parker&#8221;<\/a> at bullets-and-beer.com.)<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/font> Marko also <a href=\"http:\/\/munchkinwrangler.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/19\/another-old-master-departs\/\" target=\"_blank\">mourns<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Spenser\u2019 novelist Robert Parker dies at age 77: Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his &#8220;Spenser&#8221; series, has died. He was 77. I&#8217;ve savaged his recent books in my book reports, but Parker remained a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}