{"id":12756,"date":"2010-01-27T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/01\/27\/12756.html"},"modified":"2010-01-27T22:56:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:56:05","slug":"sad-news-about-kage-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/01\/27\/sad-news-about-kage-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Very sad news about Kage Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kagebaker.com\/\">Kage Baker<\/a>'s sister Kathleen Bartholomew sent out a public note revealing that <a href=\"http:\/\/tribes.tribe.net\/renfairehistorysnobs\/thread\/c6091923-27e4-438c-ac8e-0e28d596b85d\">Baker had metastatic cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, things have gotten even worse. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmanreview.com\/\">Green Man Review<\/a> forwards a new note from Bartholomew that says, among other things:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Kage's doctor has informed us she has reached the end of useful treatment. [...] It is probably a matter of a few weeks, at most.<\/p>\n<p>[...] I'll have her home in her own bedroom by the weekend [...], so end of life care can take place in more comfortable surroundings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That first letter linked above contains contact information, should you wish to write to Baker via email or papermail. If you've liked her work, now would be a good time to let her know.<\/p>\n<p>[For those who aren't good with author names, in case this means anything to you, Baker is best known as the author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._Zeus_Inc.\">Company<\/a> (a.k.a. Dr. Zeus, Inc) novels and stories, featuring immortal cyborg time travelers preserving important stuff throughout history. (I was amazed when I found out that the Alec Checkerfield stories and <cite>The Empress of Mars<\/cite> were part of the Company universe.)]<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, author Kage Baker&#8217;s sister Kathleen Bartholomew sent out a public note revealing that Baker had metastatic cancer. Unfortunately, things have gotten even worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-speculative-fiction","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}