{"id":1922,"date":"2004-03-29T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/03\/29\/1922.html"},"modified":"2004-03-29T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T18:36:17","slug":"grammarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/03\/29\/grammarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammarian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got a few birthday presents and some nice phone calls and emails and journal comments; thank you all!  I think my favorite present, though, was merely a coincidence in timing: the chance to reprint Eleanor Arnason's story \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/index.pl?Contents=\/2004\/20040329\/grammarian.shtml\">The Grammarian's Five Daughters<\/a>\" in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/\">author focus issue<\/a> this week.  It's one of my favorite stories, for reasons that will doubtless be obvious (upon reading it) to anyone who knows me.<\/p>\n<p>This week we're also featuring an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/index.pl?Contents=\/2004\/20040329\/arnason.shtml\">interview with Eleanor<\/a> (by Lyda Morehouse) and two reviews of Eleanor's work&#8212;one by John Garrison of her first novel, <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/index.pl?Contents=\/2004\/20040329\/metals.shtml\">A Woman of the Iron People<\/a>,<\/cite> which won the first Tiptree award in 1991 and is now available in a new ebook edition, and one by Ruth Berman on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/index.pl?Contents=\/2004\/20040329\/hwarhath.shtml\">Hwarhath stories<\/a>, including a handy bibliography listing all the stories.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor is up for two Nebulas this year (for the Hwarhath novella \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/_issue_0401\/bones.shtml\">Potter of Bones<\/a>\" and the non-Hwarhath short story \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asimovs.com\/_issue_0401\/knapsack.shtml\">Knapsack Poems<\/a>\") and will be one of the guests of honor at this year's WisCon.  If you're not familiar with her and her work, go read about her.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and in case y'all Swarthmore types don't know this, she's a Swarthmore alum.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a few birthday presents and some nice phone calls and emails and journal comments; thank you all! I&#8230;<\/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":[30,28,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-things","category-short-stories","category-speculative-fiction","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","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=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}