{"id":37800,"date":"2013-10-02T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37800"},"modified":"2013-10-02T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:56:04","slug":"rip-tom-clancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37800","title":{"rendered":"RIP Tom Clancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I could hardly believe it either, but Tom Clancy, 66, the novelist &#8211; and I&#8217;m sure everyone in this crowd has read at least one of his novels &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/myfox8.com\/2013\/10\/02\/tom-clancy-dead-at-66-according-to-report\/\">passed away last night<\/a> in Baltimore. I&#8217;ve read every one of his books at least twice. When an ice storm hit in New York State in January 1998 and we were without electricity for 16 days, wrapped in my Army sleeping bag, I read them all from Red October to Executive Orders.<\/p>\n<p>When I watched on TV the second aircraft crash into the World Trade Center, Tom Clancy  came to mind when he warned us that passenger aircraft could be used as weapons against us. In fact, those first few days after 9-11 I felt like I was living in a Tom Clancy novel. After the 2008 elections, every time I read one of his Jack Ryan novels, it was startling to realize after reading them that the polar opposite of Ryan was sitting in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>I met him and his wife a few times in DC. <\/p>\n<p>I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Command-Authority-Jack-Novel-ebook\/dp\/B00EOARZ4G\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1380725437&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=tom+clancy+book\">Command Authority<\/a> will be his last book. It&#8217;s due out December 3rd. But like Robert Ludlum, Clancy will have clone authors trying to recreate his style and continue the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I could hardly believe it either, but Tom Clancy, 66, the novelist &#8211; and I&#8217;m &hellip; <a title=\"RIP Tom Clancy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37800\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Tom Clancy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}