{"id":1026,"date":"2017-06-19T19:43:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2017-06-20T06:03:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T06:03:08","slug":"strange-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/19\/strange-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a newsgroup post dated December 11, 2009:<\/i><\/p>\n

Christmas cards have started arriving.<\/p>\n

Two people report that their husbands died in October; a third lost his mother-in-law and<\/i> a son-in-law. How depressing!<\/p>\n

But on the good side, I got the June 1935 issue of The Twilight Patrol<\/b>, featuring the full-length novel, “Drones of the Ravaging Wind.”<\/p>\n

This is, I am not kidding, a friend’s Christmas card; he wrote and edited the issue. He wrote the novel last year, actually, but the rest of the issue (a short story, a poem, miscellaneous art, and a couple of features) is new. The ads are an assortment of the weirdest real ads he could find in his pulp collection. The full-color cover bears the NRA seal.<\/p>\n

I wish I could do something like that!<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"And I have been eager to re-post this item so I could point out that now you, too, can read The Twilight Patrol 1: Drones of the Ravaging Wind<\/i>!<\/a>\"\" There’s even a sequel, The Twilight Patrol 2: Maggot Czar of the Everglades<\/i>.<\/a>\"\" These aren’t in Christmas card\/pulp magazine format with the additional material, but still…<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a newsgroup post dated December 11, 2009: Christmas cards have started arriving. Two people report that their husbands died in October; a third lost his mother-in-law and a son-in-law. How depressing! But on the good side, I got the June 1935 issue of The Twilight Patrol, featuring the full-length novel, “Drones of the Ravaging… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}