{"id":5703,"date":"2019-07-25T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2019-07-24T21:41:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T04:41:53","slug":"robert-mayer-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/robert-mayer-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mayer, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5704\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SuperFolksFront200dpi-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SuperFolksFront200dpi-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SuperFolksFront200dpi-768x1175.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SuperFolksFront200dpi-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SuperFolksFront200dpi.jpg 1328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>Robert Mayer, a man whom I was glad to call a friend, and whose work I have proudly published for over 15 years, passed away on Tuesday. He was a journalist and an author, whose books include everything from the influential literary superhero satire\u00a0<em>Superfolks<\/em> to the true crime chronicle\u00a0<em>The Dreams of Ada<\/em> to being a contributor to the best-selling lurid hoax\u00a0<em>Naked Came the Stranger<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But why mention him here on this Peanuts books blog? Well, on the opening page of\u00a0<em>Superfolks<\/em>, he is chronicling the bad end that various heroes, ranging for Superman to John Kennedy, had come to. And the list caps off with &#8220;<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">Even Snoopy had bought it; shot down by the Red Baron; missing in action over France.&#8221; <\/span>(Fear not, dear readers; toward the end of the novel, it is indicated that while Snoopy may have been downed, he was not yet out.) While the novel came out in 1977, it was still a fairly early literary reference to Peanuts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a small thing, but I welcome the excuse to talk about my friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mayer, a man whom I was glad to call a friend, and whose work I have proudly published for over 15 years, passed away on Tuesday. He was a journalist and an author, whose books include everything from the influential literary superhero satire\u00a0Superfolks to the true crime chronicle\u00a0The Dreams &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}