{"id":11817,"date":"2021-12-13T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2021-12-18T18:39:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T01:39:52","slug":"anne-rice-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/13\/anne-rice-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Rice Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/12\/anne-rice-dies-interview-with-the-vampire-author-80-1234889567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anne Rice Dies: \u2018Interview With The Vampire\u2019 Author Was 80<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tom Grater<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21175681052280-1.jpg?w=681&amp;h=383&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Anne Rice Dead obituary\"\/><figcaption><em>Anne Rice \/ AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/anne-rice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anne Rice<\/a>, the American writer whose\u00a0<em>Interview with the Vampire<\/em>\u00a0sold more than 150 million copies, has died. She was 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe immensity of our family\u2019s grief cannot be overstated,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAs my mother, her support for me was unconditional \u2014 she taught me to embrace my dreams, reject conformity and challenge the dark voices of fear and self-doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born on October 4, 1941, in New Orleans, Rice initially struggled to find popularity, with her debut novel<em>\u00a0Interview with the Vampire<\/em>\u00a0receiving mixed reviews upon its release in 1976. The book, penned while she was grieving the loss of her daughter to leukemia, since\u00a0has been reappraised as a key text in the modern vampire genre and spawned 11 sequels, collectively known as\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Vampire Chronicles<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/12\/anne-rice-dies-interview-with-the-vampire-author-80-1234889567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[ <\/a>click to continue reading at Deadline ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Anne Rice Dies: \u2018Interview With The Vampire\u2019 Author Was 80 By Tom Grater Anne Rice, the American writer whose\u00a0Interview with the Vampire\u00a0sold more than 150 million copies, has died. She was 80. \u201cThe immensity of our family\u2019s grief cannot be overstated,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAs my mother, her support for me was unconditional \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}