{"id":328,"date":"2008-04-17T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/04\/17\/remembering-jamie\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:48:17","slug":"remembering-jamie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/04\/17\/remembering-jamie\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Jamie"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p> $\"\"$ <\/a>It\u2019s getting late here after a long day, and it\u2019s gonna be a long night of work ahead. Still, I can\u2019t let this day pass without remembering Jamie Bishop<\/a>. Virginia Tech dedicated today to the memory of those who passed in last year\u2019s tragedy, and Jamie was one of them. I never knew Jamie. We never met. He was a fellow cover illustrator for Golden Gryphon Press<\/a> and his father was the sf author Michael Bishop<\/a>. Fragile as those connections are, they were enough to really hit home with me as an sf illustrator myself. The single thing I will always associate with Jamie\u2019s memory will not be the Virginia Tech events, but this headline about him in a Roanoke newspaper: \u201cJamie Bishop: He talked about changing the world with art.\u201d<\/a> I think about that on nights like tonight when I\u2019ve got tight deadlines and the pressure\u2019s on. Here\u2019s to you, Jamie.\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s getting late here after a long day, and it\u2019s gonna be a long night of work ahead. Still, I can\u2019t let this day pass without remembering Jamie Bishop. Virginia Tech dedicated today to the memory of those who passed in last year\u2019s tragedy, and Jamie was one of them. I never knew Jamie. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/jamiebishop.jpg?fit=199%2C248","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-5i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}