{"id":13471,"date":"2010-04-14T09:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=13471"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:18:07","slug":"blogger-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/blogger-of-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/booksonmars.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/confederate-history-month-proclamation.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mars.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13472\" title=\"mars\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mars.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mars.jpg 436w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mars-149x150.jpg 149w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mars-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While civil rights leaders are justifiably outraged that Gov. Robert F. McDonnell\u2019s proclamation declaring April 2010 to be Confederate History Month in the state of Virginia fails to mention slavery, Martian science fiction fans are irked that the proclamation mentions famed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_E._Lee\">General Robert E. Lee<\/a> but does not mention legendary Captain Jack Carter of Virginia, a courageous Confederate cavalry officer who served the South in the War Between the States and who is better known as John Carter of Mars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/booksonmars.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/confederate-history-month-proclamation.html\">entry for April 7, 2010<\/a>, which\u00a0can be found at\u00a0the web log, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/booksonmars.blogspot.com\/\">Marooned &#8212; Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars<\/a><\/em>. Helmed by the mononymous &#8220;Paul,&#8221; <em>Marooned<\/em>\u00a0maintains an admirably Mars-centric focus as the blog post above amply demonstrates. Paul&#8217;s breadth of coverage and commentary is as vast as the dusty Martian sea-beds, ranging from suggestions that Rob Zombie should direct <a href=\"http:\/\/booksonmars.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/rob-zombie-should-remake-1968-yvonne.html\">a remake of <em>Mars Needs Women<\/em><\/a> to\u00a0news about\u00a0the publication by Haffner of <a href=\"http:\/\/booksonmars.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/haffner-press-to-reprint-edmond.html\">Edmond Hamilton&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The<\/em> <em>Magician of Mars<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0Of course, Leigh Brackett and ERB get regular shoutouts.<\/p>\n<p>With all kinds of Martian-related fiction seeing print and the production of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=9685\">John Carter of Mars<\/a><\/em> in high gear, <em>Marooned<\/em> is a much-needed clearing-house for newcomers (and old Martian hands) to check out cool\u00a0updates on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While civil rights leaders are justifiably outraged that Gov. Robert F. McDonnell\u2019s proclamation declaring April 2010 to be Confederate History Month in the state of Virginia fails to mention slavery, Martian science fiction fans are irked that the proclamation mentions famed General Robert E. Lee but does not mention legendary Captain Jack Carter of Virginia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,272,55],"tags":[244,938,658,247,278,945,245,937],"class_list":["post-13471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leigh-brackett","category-edgar-rice-burroughs-other-authors","category-fandom","tag-brackett","tag-confederate-history-month","tag-edmond-hamilton","tag-haffner-press","tag-john-carter-of-mars","tag-john-carter-of-mars-movie","tag-leigh","tag-robert-e-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13471"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16814,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions\/16814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}