{"id":1191,"date":"2007-02-03T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/sidney-sheldon.html"},"modified":"2007-02-03T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T22:30:00","slug":"sidney-sheldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/sidney-sheldon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Sheldon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to hear about the death of Sidney Sheldon earlier this week. I know I usually focus on Christian fiction in my blog, but I just felt I had to take a moment and talk about one of my favorite secular authors. I first started reading his books when I was in my early twenties, decades after his first book was published. A friend of mine knew how much I loved to read novels, so he recommended <em><\/em>The Sands of Time<em><\/em> by Sidney Sheldon. I read it and I was hooked. Since the man had been writing books for years, I had a Sidney Sheldon marathon of reading! I checked all of his books out of my library and read them! They were great! After that, I eagerly looked forward to his new releases. <\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve been focusing mostly on reading and writing Christian fiction, I haven&#8217;t read any of his releases that were published in the last five years since my time is extremely limited. However, I do think that Hollywood, and the publishing industry, has lost a great writer.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<br \/>Cecelia Dowdy<br \/>www.ceceliadowdy.com<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to hear about the death of Sidney Sheldon earlier this week. I know I usually focus on Christian fiction in my blog, but I just felt I had to take a moment and talk about one of my favorite secular authors. I first started reading his books when I was in my [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-talk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-jd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}