{"id":547,"date":"2009-02-25T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpBlogs\/YellowedPerils_test\/?p=547"},"modified":"2009-02-25T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T18:28:12","slug":"philip-jos-farmer-1918-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2009\/02\/25\/philip-jos-farmer-1918-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer: 1918-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-549\" style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-549\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2010\/08\/pjfarmer.jpg?resize=75%2C111&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer\" width=\"75\" height=\"111\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On a sad note, <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=FarmerPhilipJose\">Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer<\/a> died in his sleep this morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjfarmer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his official Web site<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>For many of us, Farmer\u2019s books, <em>Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life<\/em> and <em>Tarzan Alive<\/em>, and his pastiches helped fire our interest in the pulps.<\/p>\n<p>His conceit that <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=DocSavage\">Doc Savage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=TarzanCharacter\">Tarzan<\/a> and other literary heroes were actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjfarmer.com\/woldnewton\/Pulp.htm\" target=\"_blank\">living people<\/a> has provided years of enjoyment to many.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Widely known for his later science fiction novels, Farmer was first published in the early 1950s science fiction pulps <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=StartlingStories\">Startling Stories<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=ThrillingWonderStories\">Thrilling Wonder Stories<\/a><\/em>, as well as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=ArgosyThe\">Argosy<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He also was a guest of honor at PulpCon 18 in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>He will be missed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Mercurie, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/mercurie.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Shroud of Thoughts blog<\/a>, has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/mercurie.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/philip-jose-farmer-rip.html\" target=\"_blank\">a lengthier obituary for Farmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a sad note, Philip Jos\u00e9 Farmer died in his sleep this morning, his official Web site reports. For many of us, Farmer\u2019s books, Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life and Tarzan Alive, and his pastiches helped fire our interest in the pulps. His conceit that Doc Savage, Tarzan and other literary heroes were actually living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[7,18,9,11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-obituaries","category-people","category-pulps"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-8P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}