{"id":905,"date":"2007-12-12T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:15:28","slug":"robert-jordans-new-helpmate-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/robert-jordans-new-helpmate-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Jordan&#8217;s new helpmate revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/12\/sanderson.jpg\" alt=\"sanderson.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor-forge.com\/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=647\">has announced<\/a> that fantasy author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brandon_Sanderson\">Brandon Sanderson<\/a> (The Mistborn Series) has been hired to complete Robert Jordan&#8217;s last book, thus putting to rest one of the most ambitious yet unwieldy fantasy series ever written, The Wheel of Time [hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rehtwogunraconteur.com\/\">Damon Sasser<\/a>]. You can read an interview with Sanderson about his new job here.<\/p>\n<p>If he does what the fans consider a competent, even seamless job, then good on him. If he doesn&#8217;t, well &#8212; then Jordan&#8217;s fans will finally know what it was like for Howardists to sit through the Conan pastiche craze of the &#8217;80s, one in which Jordan participated with gusto.<\/p>\n<p>The Wheel of Time turns and turns&#8230;.and turns and turns&#8230;.and turns&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tor has announced that fantasy author Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Series) has been hired to complete Robert Jordan&#8217;s last book, thus putting to rest one of the most ambitious yet unwieldy fantasy series ever written, The Wheel of Time [hat tip: Damon Sasser]. You can read an interview with Sanderson about his new job here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16449,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/16449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}