{"id":3250,"date":"2007-12-12T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/12\/terry-pratchett-not-dead-thank-goodness\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T10:55:59","slug":"terry-pratchett-not-dead-thank-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/12\/terry-pratchett-not-dead-thank-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Pratchett &#8216;not dead&#8217;, thank goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw that one of my Facebook friend&#8217;s status was &#8216;very upset about Terry Pratchett&#8217;, my blood ran cold. Fortunately, I was wrong to fear the worst, but <a href=http:\/\/www.paulkidby.com\/news\/index.html>there&#8217;s still bad news<\/a>: he&#8217;s been diagnosed with &#8220;a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer&#8217;s&#8221;.<br \/>\nOdd as it might seem, Terry Pratchett&#8217;s novels have been an important, and extremely beneficial, influence on me over the years (anyone out there who hasn&#8217;t read <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Small-Discworld-Novel-Terry-Pratchett\/dp\/0552138908\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1197475001&#038;sr=8-1>Small Gods<\/a> definitely should). Here&#8217;s hoping that he&#8217;ll be continuing to make me laugh and think for many more years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw that one of my Facebook friend&#8217;s status was &#8216;very upset about Terry Pratchett&#8217;, my blood ran cold. Fortunately, I was wrong to fear the worst, but there&#8217;s still bad news: he&#8217;s been diagnosed with &#8220;a very rare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/12\/terry-pratchett-not-dead-thank-goodness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}