{"id":647,"date":"2007-09-07T16:35:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T20:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2007-09-07T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T20:35:36","slug":"a-wrinkle-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2007\/09\/07\/a-wrinkle-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"a wrinkle in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, children&#8217;s writer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/08\/books\/07cnd-lengle.html?ex=1346904000&#038;en=132247b4c2924c00&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">passed away yesterday<\/a> at the age of 88. She introduced me to the ideas of science fiction in grade one, long before I had any concept of what it was, through &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Wrinkle_in_Time\">A Wrinkle In Time<\/a>&#8221;. I liked the book so much I &#8220;borrowed&#8221; it permanently from the school library, and it was one of those I lost in my little flood last year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Wrinkle&#8230;&#8221; got me hooked on SciFi and all the wonderful thinking that comes with wondering what&#8217;s possible and what it would be like to experience those possibilities. It also gave me nightmares of the Man with Red Eyes for <em>years<\/em>. I haven&#8217;t read it in a very long time, which is something I should probably rectify.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, children&#8217;s writer, passed away yesterday at the age of 88. She introduced me to the ideas of science fiction in grade one, long before I had any concept of what it was, through &#8220;A Wrinkle In Time&#8221;. I liked the book so much I &#8220;borrowed&#8221; it permanently from the school library, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-good-to-know","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}