{"id":6904,"date":"2009-10-31T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:17:42","slug":"wagner-october-reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wagner-october-reprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner October Reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6905  aligncenter\" title=\"Karl-Kane\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Karl-Kane.jpg\" alt=\"Karl-Kane\" width=\"311\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Karl-Kane.jpg 311w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Karl-Kane-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has been quite a month for fans of Karl Edward Wagner. For days following the dawn of October 13, there were memorial pieces posted all over the Internet, testifying to KEW&#8217;s continuing, vibrant legacy. We here at <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?cat=57\">did our part<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>John Mayer, a life-long friend of Wagner&#8217;s, along with other devotees of the Man From Knoxville, did his part as well.\u00a0Mayer organized a gathering at Patrick Sullivan&#8217;s, a venerable Knoxville drinking establishment, to discuss organizing and promoting a yearly horror festival\u00a0with Wagner as the focal point. Apparently, fans from far and wide attended. A write-up in Metro Pulse, an online &#8220;alternative arts and entertainment weekly covering the Knoxville area,&#8221; can be found here.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day that the &#8220;Is Knoxville Ready for a Karl Wagner Horror Festival?&#8221; article ran, Metro Pulse also posted &#8220;The Dark Muse of Karl Edward Wagner&#8221; Parts 1 and 2.\u00a0In it, Mayer summarizes KEW&#8217;s life and career. Between the three articles, all published on October 28, that is a <em>lot<\/em> of coverage for an author who is still\u00a0little-known to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*My thanks to Martin Andersson for the heads-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been quite a month for fans of Karl Edward Wagner. For days following the dawn of October 13, there were memorial pieces posted all over the Internet, testifying to KEW&#8217;s continuing, vibrant legacy. We here at The Cimmerian did our part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-wagnerkarledward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904","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=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16735,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions\/16735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}