{"id":3417,"date":"2006-02-27T01:56:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T09:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/02\/27\/3417.html"},"modified":"2006-02-27T01:56:45","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T09:56:45","slug":"rip-octavia-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/02\/27\/rip-octavia-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., Octavia Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For those who haven't heard: sf writer Octavia E. Butler died on Saturday, age 58.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some relevant links (I haven't read\/heard all of these yet, so can't vouch for the quality of all of them):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Seattle Times<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2002831388_butlerobit27m.html\">obituary<\/a>, including some quotes from Harlan Ellison and Steven Barnes.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/books\/260959_butlerobit26ww.html\">obituary<\/a>, including more detailed quotes from Barnes and Tananarive Due. It suggests that the cause of death was falling and hitting her head; earlier reports had suggested a possible stroke.<\/li>\n<li>AP <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/6420AP_WA_Obit_Butler.html\">obituary<\/a> apparently also published in the <cite>Seattle P-I<\/cite>.  And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/people\/2006-02-27-butler-obit_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA\">another version of the AP obituary<\/a> in <cite>USA Today<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li>Brief SFWA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/news\/2006\/obutler.htm\">obituary<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nyc.indymedia.org\/en\/2006\/01\/63925.shtml\">Butler interview<\/a> from <cite>Indypendent<\/cite> from a couple weeks ago.<\/li>\n<li>Edward Champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=22\">podcast interview of Butler<\/a>, apparently from December of 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Heather Shaw's <cite>SH<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2000\/20001218\/butler.shtml\">article about Butler's work<\/a> from December of 2000.<\/li>\n<li>Brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twbookmark.com\/authors\/85\/184\/\">author bio<\/a> from about five years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In that author bio, Butler wrote: \"I'm a 53-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer.\" I'm sad she won't get that chance.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who haven&#8217;t heard: sf writer Octavia E. Butler died on Saturday, age 58. Here are some relevant links&#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":[19,14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-death","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","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=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}