{"id":38274,"date":"2025-02-02T13:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38274"},"modified":"2025-02-02T13:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:27:49","slug":"rip-james-carlos-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38274","title":{"rendered":"RIP: James Carlos Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z020225rip_james_carlos_blake.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was announced that James Carlos Blake died on January 11, 2025.\u00a0 Mr. Blake was 81.\u00a0 The cause of death was pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Mr. Blake wrote off and on from his teens, it wasn&#8217;t until the 1980s that he began to write seriously for publication.\u00a0 At that point James Carlos Blake began to get his short stories published in literary journals.\u00a0 In 1995, his first novel, THE PISTOLEER saw print. It was a finalist for that year&#8217;s Best Novel of the West award from the Western Writers of America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">James Carlos Blake would go on to write 13 more novels and gain worldwide recognition (and awards) for his fiction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been a James Carlos Blake fan for years.\u00a0 His books are always entertaining.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a fan of crime fiction, then by all means seek them out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out thoughts and prayers go out to James Carlos Blake&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced that James Carlos Blake died on January 11, 2025.\u00a0 Mr. Blake was 81.\u00a0 The cause of death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[61,52,51,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38275,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38274\/revisions\/38275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}