{"id":617,"date":"2010-02-07T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T22:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpBlogs\/YellowedPerils_test\/?p=617"},"modified":"2011-07-30T00:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T07:41:48","slug":"pulpster-phil-klass-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2010\/02\/07\/pulpster-phil-klass-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulpster Phil Klass has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dpsinfo.com\/williamtenn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Klass<\/a>, who wrote under the name <strong>William Tenn<\/strong>, died Sunday, Feb. 7. He was 89.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-619\" style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-619\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2010\/08\/phil_klass.jpg?resize=75%2C126&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Phil Klass, also known as William Tenn\" width=\"75\" height=\"126\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Klass, also known as William Tenn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Klass started his writing career with stories in <em>Astounding<\/em> and <em>Weird Tales<\/em> beginning in 1946 and \u201947. He went on to have dozens of stories, often with a humorous slant, printed in a number of science fiction pulps.<\/p>\n<p>He retired in the late 1980s from Penn State University, where he had taught english and literature since the mid-\u201960s.<\/p>\n<p>I never knew Mr. Klass personally, but I had the great fortune of meeting him and his wife, Fruma, at <strong>Pulpcon 35<\/strong> in 2006. He was one of that year\u2019s guests of honor and gave an hour-long talk about his life in the science fiction pulps.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear him reminisce about his writing years in <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulp-info\/convention-coverage\/pulpcon-2006\/\">our Pulpcon 35 Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always sad to hear the passing of a pulpster. Our thoughts are with his wife, family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Klass, who wrote under the name William Tenn, died Sunday, Feb. 7. He was 89.<\/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":[7,18,9,21,11,12],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-obituaries","category-people","category-pulpcon","category-pulps","category-pulpsters"],"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-9X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}