{"id":10886,"date":"2007-09-16T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/16\/let-this-moment-stand\/"},"modified":"2007-09-16T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T14:10:13","slug":"let-this-moment-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/16\/let-this-moment-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Let this moment stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though it happened two Fridays previous, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070907\/ap_on_re_us\/obit_l_engle\">passing of a great author<\/a> is just as haunting. Madeline L&#8217;Engle wrote some great novels, did it expertly, and for the delight of fans. A Wrinkle in Time remains one of my favorites, along side Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh and Speak, Memory by Nabokov. She tackled big themes&#8211;ground breaking ones, really&#8211;packaging them in an engaging, almost thriller paced story.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also one of only two authors I&#8217;ve ever corresponded with, the other being a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ian-rogers.com\/journal\/\">horror writer in Canada<\/a>. To her credit, she answered the letters personally, even though they were written in terrible childish scrawl. She treated my lined paper queries as if composed with a typewriter upon the finest parchment.<\/p>\n<p>And on a point closer to home, <a href=\"http:\/\/bookzeverywhere.blogspot.com\/\">Editor person<\/a> published some of L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s last books. I always wanted to meet her, but EP respected her privacy enough not to forward my fan boy request along.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/engle.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, Madeline. I loved your work. May you find the happiness and solace you deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it happened two Fridays previous, the passing of a great author is just as haunting. Madeline L&#8217;Engle wrote some great novels, did it expertly, and for the delight of fans. A Wrinkle in Time remains one of my favorites, along side Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh and Speak, Memory by Nabokov. She tackled big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}