{"id":5599,"date":"2009-09-18T15:31:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T22:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2009-10-16T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T17:30:51","slug":"word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/word\/","title":{"rendered":"Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/berkley_hour_dragon.jpg\" alt=\"berkley_hour_dragon\" title=\"berkley_hour_dragon\" width=\"165\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5600\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition to the twenty-one Conan stories that Howard actually wrote, there has been a plethora of Conan pastiches, written by various authors, in an effort to fill gaps in the Cimmerian&#8217;s career.<br \/>\nWhile Howard did leave a few very brief fragments and outlines for other Conan stories &#8212; which have been completed through &#8220;posthumous collaboration&#8221; &#8212; later writers have&#8221;revised&#8221; non-fantasy adventures to turn them into Conan stories, and have further diluted Howard&#8217;s Conan through a vast body of frank pastiches.<br \/>\nThese are not Conan stories &#8212; not Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Conan &#8212; and have no more validity in relation to the stories than any Conan stories you might yourself  decide to write. {&#8230;} It is a matter of spirit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Karl Edward Wagner, forward to &#8220;Hour of the Dragon,&#8221; Berkley  paperback, 1977.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s never been said better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the twenty-one Conan stories that Howard actually wrote, there has been a plethora of Conan pastiches, written by various authors, in an effort to fill gaps in the Cimmerian&#8217;s career. While Howard did leave a few very brief fragments and outlines for other Conan stories &#8212; which have been completed through &#8220;posthumous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-reputation","category-wagnerkarledward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}