{"id":328,"date":"2009-09-08T19:42:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T23:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=328"},"modified":"2009-09-08T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T23:42:20","slug":"terry-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Terry Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever meet people you &#8216;knew&#8217; as a kid?\u00a0 I read the Shannara series by Terry Brooks when I was a kid &#8211; before I had read the Tolkien books.\u00a0 So, it was my first exposure to the genre &#8211; and memorable for an impressionable youth.\u00a0 I did my trilogy book report on his Shannara series.\u00a0 Brooks lives up in Seattle and comes down to Portland for releases and signings on occasion.\u00a0 I went to his signing at Powells and got a book autographed.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I was into his later books on Landover, and despite a lot of what people say &#8211; the comparisons between Sword of Shannara and Tolkien are a bit too close for comfort.\u00a0 Still, enjoyable to finally meet folks you&#8217;ve read and find them to be &#8216;normal&#8217; and courteous.\u00a0 Terry was indeed those things.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.net\/special\/brooks.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.net\/special\/brooks.jpg?fit=640%2C450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever meet people you &#8216;knew&#8217; as a kid?\u00a0 I read the Shannara series by Terry Brooks when I was a kid &#8211; before I had read the Tolkien books.\u00a0 So, it was my first exposure to the genre &#8211; and memorable for an impressionable youth.\u00a0 I did my trilogy book report on his Shannara series.\u00a0 Brooks lives up in Seattle and comes down to Portland for releases and signings on occasion.\u00a0 I went to his signing at Powells and got&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=328\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-5i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}