{"id":87,"date":"2009-06-26T07:19:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advanced1498.inmotionhosting.com\/~geargear\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-06-26T07:19:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:49:19","slug":"in-memory-of-don-coldsmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/in-memory-of-don-coldsmith\/","title":{"rendered":"IN MEMORY OF DON COLDSMITH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Don Coldsmith passed away this morning.  He was the author of over 40 books, including our favorite series, the &#8220;Spanish Bit Saga.&#8221;  He was one of our heroes.   It&#8217;s hard to imagine a world without Don&#8217;s kindness and sense of humor.  The universe is less today.  But he lived an amazing life.  When it&#8217;s all said and done, how many of us will be able to say that we saved lives, brought new lives into the world, fought for this country&#8217;s freedom, and changed the face of Western writing?  Few, we suspect.  He had a rare kind of soft-spoken courage, the stuff legends are made of.  We&#8217;re going to miss him very much.    <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never read a Coldsmith novel, pick up &#8220;Runestone,&#8221; or &#8220;The Changing Wind.&#8221;  You&#8217;ll enjoy them.  We guarantee it.<\/p>\n<p>And since today is June 25th, the anniversary of the battle of the Little Big Horn, we want to say definitively that Custer REALLY did have it coming.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Michael and Kathleen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, Don Coldsmith passed away this morning. He was the author of over 40 books, including our favorite series, the &#8220;Spanish Bit Saga.&#8221; He was one of our heroes. It&#8217;s hard to imagine a world without Don&#8217;s kindness and sense of humor. The universe is less today. But he lived an amazing life. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}