{"id":11753,"date":"2011-11-23T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11753"},"modified":"2011-11-22T19:08:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T00:08:55","slug":"that-one-writer-who-changed-everything-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/11\/23\/that-one-writer-who-changed-everything-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"That One Writer Who Changed Everything For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne McCaffrey passed away at age 85, and it&#8217;s always sad when the world loses a great author. I&#8217;d only read one of her books (the first Pern) and liked it well enough, but it was a long time ago and for some reason I responded better to <strong>Dune<\/strong> at the time. But I know her work really inspired and affected a lot of readers and future writers, and that&#8217;s a powerful thing.<\/p>\n<p>So, it seems a good time to devote some air time to those writers that really affected you, whose work still resonates with you, whose work maybe <em>changed you<\/em> in some fashion.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;one writer,&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t really need to be the case. Can be one, can be several.<\/p>\n<p>So: who?<\/p>\n<p>What writers affected you deeply, straight through the heart and clean to the soul?<\/p>\n<p>How? Why? What books? What was the effect of those books?<\/p>\n<p>Honor them here if you are so inclined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne McCaffrey passed away at age 85, and it&#8217;s always sad when the world loses a great author. I&#8217;d only read one of her books (the first Pern) and liked it well enough, but it was a long time ago and for some reason I responded better to Dune at the time. But I know her work really inspired and affected a lot of readers and future writers, and that&#8217;s a powerful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-11753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-writing","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-33z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11755,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11753\/revisions\/11755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}