{"id":17397,"date":"2009-08-30T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17397"},"modified":"2015-01-02T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T03:47:00","slug":"jaycee-lee-dugard-read-science-fiction-during-her-captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/30\/jaycee-lee-dugard-read-science-fiction-during-her-captivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaycee Lee Dugard read Science Fiction during her captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Frost just pointed out an unsettling claim to fame <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gregory_frost\">over on his twitter feed<\/a>&#8212;his novel <i>Shadowbridge<\/i>, along with George R.R. Martin&#8217;s <i>A Game of Thrones<\/i>, was photographed on the bedside table of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/jaycee-lee-dugard\/6111784\/Jaycee-Lee-Dugard-Inside-the-secret-world-where-she-was-kept-captive-for-18-years.html\">Jaycee Lee Dugard<\/a>, the poor woman who finally escaped after having been  held captive for 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>Greg&#8217;s book was at the top of the pile:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JayceeLeeDugard1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JayceeLeeDugard1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"JayceeLeeDugard1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JayceeLeeDugard1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JayceeLeeDugard1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photographs also reveal a bookcase filled with by books Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear, Brian Lumley, Anne McCaffrey and others, including a heck of a lot of Dean Koontz:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JayceeLeeDugard2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JayceeLeeDugard2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"JayceeLeeDugard2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JayceeLeeDugard2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JayceeLeeDugard2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine the horror Dugard felt while locked away like that. And what must have been going through her mind as she read the <i>Foundation<\/i> trilogy and other books in search of some kind of momentary escape, I&#8217;m at a loss to imagine &#8230; it&#8217;s just too horrifying to contemplate.<\/p>\n<p>But I pass these photos on so that those whose psychic armor is a bit thicker can make of them what they will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Frost just pointed out an unsettling claim to fame over on his twitter feed&#8212;his novel Shadowbridge, along with George R.R. Martin&#8217;s A Game of Thrones, was photographed on the bedside table of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the poor woman who finally escaped after having been held captive for 18 years. Greg&#8217;s book was at the [&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":[407],"class_list":["post-17397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gregory-frost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397","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=17397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17400,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions\/17400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}