{"id":2343,"date":"2013-04-19T21:45:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T04:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2013-04-19T21:45:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T04:45:02","slug":"a-dragon-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/19\/a-dragon-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dragon Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gkhayes.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"gkhayes.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gkhayes.com\/\">Gary Kim Hayes<\/a>, a wonderful fixture of the <a href=\"http:\/\/writers.dragoncon.org\/\">writing track at Dragon*Con<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mowellfuneralhome.com\/memsol.cgi?user_id=972841\">passed away recently at the age of 61<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t know him well, but thanks to my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellebooks.com\/shopcontent.asp?type=NancyKnight\">Nancy Knight<\/a>, I was on a few panels with him at Dragon*Con and of course got to see him in many more panels. Most notably, he moderated the fun and popular &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dailydragon.dragoncon.org\/dc2011\/panels-events-2011\/write-a-story-in-an-hour-really\/\">How to Write a Story in an Hour<\/a>&#8221; panels.<\/p>\n<p>We talked a few times. I was just starting to get to know him. I was looking forward to seeing him at the next Dragon*Con.<\/p>\n<p>And now he&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be missed.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Gary Hayes, edited slightly from his bio picture to symbolize his passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Kim Hayes, a wonderful fixture of the writing track at Dragon*Con, passed away recently at the age of 61. I didn&#8217;t know him well, but thanks to my friend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,104,119,5],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dragon-writers","tag-dragoncon","tag-memento-mori","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}