{"id":12436,"date":"2008-01-15T20:06:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T01:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2014-01-11T13:57:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T18:57:47","slug":"happy-birthday-robert-silverberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/15\/happy-birthday-robert-silverberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Robert Silverberg!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Silverberg was born 73 years ago today.  Here&#8217;s a picture I took of a slightly younger Silverberg at the 2005  World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow.  See that photo behind him?  That&#8217;s of  a <i>much<\/i> younger Silverberg at the 1957  World Science Fiction Convention in London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RobertSilverberg2005Worldcon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RobertSilverberg2005Worldcon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"RobertSilverberg2005Worldcon\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RobertSilverberg2005Worldcon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RobertSilverberg2005Worldcon-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RobertSilverberg2005Worldcon.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Robert Silverberg for as long as I&#8217;ve been reading science fiction.  And why not?  Bob&#8217;s career is one year older than I am, since he published his first short story in 1954.  (Though maybe I shouldn&#8217;t rub that in.)<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Bob!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Silverberg was born 73 years ago today. Here&#8217;s a picture I took of a slightly younger Silverberg at the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow. See that photo behind him? That&#8217;s of a much younger Silverberg at the 1957 World Science Fiction Convention in London. I&#8217;ve been reading Robert Silverberg for as long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,392],"class_list":["post-12436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-robert-silverberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12438,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions\/12438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}