{"id":17198,"date":"2009-06-18T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17198"},"modified":"2014-12-28T22:16:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T03:16:38","slug":"in-which-my-father-makes-the-years-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/18\/in-which-my-father-makes-the-years-best\/","title":{"rendered":"In which my father makes the <i>Year&#8217;s Best<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was quickly skimming the front matter to the newly arrived <i>Year&#8217;s Best Science Fiction<\/i> earlier today to learn from Gardner Dozois&#8217; Summation whether there was anything I&#8217;d missed in 2008. When I got to the list of people who had died since the previous <i>Year&#8217;s Best<\/i>, I thought, hmmm, I wonder how many of them were older than me when they passed and how many were younger? (What can I say? Maybe once you turn 50, those sorts of things pop to mind.)<\/p>\n<p>So as I continued skimming, not really counting, but just getting a general idea, feeling rather light-hearted and thinking it might even be amusing to report the split in numbers over on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/scottedelman\">my Twitter feed<\/a>, I was unprepared to come across this (click to view at a more readable size):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/YearsBestBarnetEdelman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/YearsBestBarnetEdelman-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"YearsBestBarnetEdelman\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/YearsBestBarnetEdelman-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/YearsBestBarnetEdelman.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was stunned to see that my father, who <a href=\"http:\/\/scottedelman.livejournal.com\/116341.html\">died on January 27<\/a>, was on the list. I never expected to see such a thing, especially not mere months after his death, and so, three days before Father&#8217;s Day, I wept.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Gardner, for including Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was quickly skimming the front matter to the newly arrived Year&#8217;s Best Science Fiction earlier today to learn from Gardner Dozois&#8217; Summation whether there was anything I&#8217;d missed in 2008. When I got to the list of people who had died since the previous Year&#8217;s Best, I thought, hmmm, I wonder how many of [&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":[65],"class_list":["post-17198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-father"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17198","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=17198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17201,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17198\/revisions\/17201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}