{"id":787,"date":"2007-08-16T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2007-08-16T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T11:28:00","slug":"where-fiction-meets-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Where Fiction meets Fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently reading <i>The Dark Design<\/i>, third in the Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer.  (The First two were logged <a href=\"http:\/\/electricrocket.livejournal.com\/134135.html?nc=5\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/electricrocket.livejournal.com\/135397.html?nc=14\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In my log of the first book, I mentioned this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I see from the bio that Philip Jose&#8217; Farmer was born in 1918 in Terre Haute, IN, which is 5 years after and 20 miles from the time and place when my grandfather, Floyd Lucas, was born. I wonder if they met at a barn dance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In these novels, there is a character named Peter J. Frigate, which is based upon the author.<\/p>\n<p>I have just read a chapter where Peter J. Frigate recounts his past a bit (in Terre Haute), with great detail about his father (where he went to school, etc) and other family members.  A little more than necessary in the context of the book, which leads me to believe he was spewing facts about his real history.<\/p>\n<p>And then he mentioned his grandmother, Wilhelmina Kaiser.  And I remembered that <i>my<\/i> grandmother, born in 1917 near Terre Haute, was a Kaiser.<\/p>\n<p>So, now I&#8217;m wondering not so much whether my grandfather met Farmer at a barn dance, but rather whether my grandmother knew him from a family get together.  Something to be put on a list of To Be Researched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently reading The Dark Design, third in the Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer. (The First two were logged here and here) In my log of the first book, I mentioned this: I see from the bio that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=787\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,77],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}