{"id":23983,"date":"2011-11-22T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T23:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/gone-away-gone-ahead.html"},"modified":"2011-11-23T05:59:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T12:59:51","slug":"gone-away-gone-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/gone-away-gone-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"Gone away, gone ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to learn of the passing of Anne McCaffrey. I recently re-read the original six Dragonrider \/ Harper Hall books, and re-enjoyed them a lot.  <\/p>\n<p>I did not realize that she was the first female recipient of both the Nebula and the Hugo.  <\/p>\n<p>A great talent.  Thank you, ma&#39;am. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fgeekdad%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F11%2FAnne_McCaffrey_2005.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2011\/11\/r-i-p-anne-mccaffrey-1926-2011\/'>R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey, 1926 \u2013 2011<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tReports are coming in that Anne McCaffrey, author of the famous Dragonriders of Pern fantasy series among many other works, has passed away &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to learn of the passing of Anne McCaffrey. I recently re-read the original six Dragonrider \/ Harper Hall books, and re-enjoyed them a lot. I did not realize that she was the first female recipient of both the Nebula and the Hugo. A great talent. Thank you, ma&#39;am. #ddtb Embedded Link R.I.P. Anne McCaffrey, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/gone-away-gone-ahead.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gone away, gone ahead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,24],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-writing-and-language","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23074,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/tweets-from-2011-10-13.html","url_meta":{"origin":23983,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2011-10-13","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Oct-11 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"3 of 5 stars to Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey Link # RT @GeorgeTakei: You either need a calendar on your \"smart\" phone, or an organized spouse. 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