{"id":3685,"date":"2006-09-25T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/09\/25\/3685.html"},"modified":"2006-09-25T10:04:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T17:04:47","slug":"rip-john-m-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/09\/25\/rip-john-m-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., John M. Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Author John M. \"Mike\" Ford died early this morning or late last night, at the age of 49. Elise Matthesen found his body.  Cause of death as yet unknown; Making Light says: \"[Elise] said it looked like it was fast and easy, whatever it was.\"<\/p>\n<p>We did an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20020429\/\">Author Focus issue on Ford<\/a> a few years back; my favorite piece of that was his epic poem \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20020429\/troy.shtml \">Troy: The Movie<\/a>.\"  He's better known for the Star Trek musical comedy novel <cite>How Much for Just the Planet?<\/cite>, among other works.<\/p>\n<p>There's <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/008033.html\">more about him<\/a> at Making Light, where he was a regular and prolific commenter, often posting amazing, wise, erudite, funny poems (and occasional filks) that he seemed capable of writing at a moment's notice--and they scanned perfectly, and often rhymed.  I didn't know him, but I loved his poetry.  I'm said to see him go, and sad for those who knew and loved him.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_M._Ford\">Wikipedia<\/a> has a bibliography, among other things.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apocalypse.org\/pub\/flash\/ford\/\">Will Shetterly introducing Ford<\/a>, from a while back.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/john-m-ford.html\">Neil Gaiman this morning<\/a> (mostly reprinting a long recent email from Ford).<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pnh\/108127748\/\">photo<\/a> of him from PNH's Flickr stream.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/elisem.livejournal.com\/903525.html\">Elise's post of their \"Declaration\" and \"Response\"<\/a> on LJ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And some of Ford's work, just to give you an idea of what he could do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/110.html\">110 Stories<\/a>, a remarkable 9\/11 poem<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/005235.html\">Harry of Five Points<\/a>--\"Shakespeare by Damon Runyon by John M. Ford\"<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/007074.html#105724\">Cosmology: A User's Manual<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/007996.html#143885\">I am the King now, and I want a sandwich<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more, see the aforelinked Making Light entry.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author John M. &#8220;Mike&#8221; Ford died early this morning or late last night, at the age of 49. Elise Matthesen&#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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","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=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}