{"id":15643,"date":"2021-08-06T20:09:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15643"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:09:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:09:50","slug":"r-i-p-walter-wangerin-1944-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15643","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., Walter Wangerin, 1944-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s3.amazonaws.com\/bg3-blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/09164141\/WalterWangerin_Portrait2.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Rabbit Room <\/strong>has announced that the great Walter Wangerin, Jr. passed into glory yesterday, after a long battle with cancer. Article <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbitroom.com\/2021\/08\/the-long-shadow-of-walter-wangerin-jr\/\">here<\/a>; I haven&#8217;t been able to find much other information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my humble opinion, Wangerin&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Book-Dun-Cow-Walter-Wangerin-ebook\/dp\/B00DG5HWMA\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PMN19MG9RZ11&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=the+book+of+the+dun+cow+by+walter+wangerin+jr&amp;qid=1628294824&amp;sprefix=the+book+of+the+dun+cow%2Caps%2C235&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">The Book of the Dun Cow<\/a><\/em> is one of the  truly great works, not only of Christian fantasy, but of any fiction of any kind. I never loved any of Wangerin&#8217;s other works as well as I loved <em>TBOTDC<\/em>, but that book is so wonderful all by itself that it ought to secure its author&#8217;s standing as a great master until Our Lord returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was a Lutheran, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rabbit Room has announced that the great Walter Wangerin, Jr. passed into glory yesterday, after a long battle with cancer. Article here; I haven&#8217;t been able to find much other information. In my humble opinion, Wangerin&#8217;s The Book of the Dun Cow is one of the truly great works, not only of Christian fantasy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">R.I.P., Walter Wangerin, 1944-2021<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3804,3301],"class_list":["post-15643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-the-book-of-the-dun-cow","tag-walter-wangerin"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15645,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15643\/revisions\/15645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}