{"id":3277,"date":"2011-06-20T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2011-06-20T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T16:39:28","slug":"my-oddest-fan-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/my-oddest-fan-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"My Oddest Fan Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through my image files the other day, I unearthed my oddest fan letter ever\u2014and, believe me, there\u2019s been some stiff competition over the years.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/foot_star_fan_letter_1981_1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/foot_star_fan_letter_1981.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nClick on the image to see a <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/foot_star_fan_letter_1981_1200.jpg\">larger image<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This arrived in 1981, shortly after my first published novel , <em><a target=\"blank\" href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/156858198X\/tag=rusbl-20\"\">White Light<\/a><\/em>.  I\u2019d crafted a subtle tale about the 1960s, higher infinities, and the afterlife.  And having read my book in a prison library, some guy smeared ink on his foot, stomped on a piece of paper, and sent me the results.  In his mind we were literary peers\u2014and I should collaborate on a book with him.<\/p>\n<p>A book about the wrinkle on his foot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through my image files the other day, I unearthed my oddest fan letter ever\u2014and, believe me, there\u2019s been some stiff competition over the years. Click on the image to see a larger image. This arrived in 1981, shortly after my first published novel , White Light. I\u2019d crafted a subtle tale about the 1960s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}