{"id":423,"date":"2002-03-13T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2002-03-13T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/13\/the-truth-about-asimov\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:27:09","slug":"the-truth-about-asimov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/13\/the-truth-about-asimov\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about Asimov"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16438,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/1573929689\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314091347\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/1573929689\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/1573929689\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 13:49:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:17:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 22:55:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 22:55:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16439,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.antipope.org\\\/charlie\\\/blosxom.cgi\\\/2002\\\/Mar\\\/7#asimov&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070916155454\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.antipope.org:80\\\/charlie\\\/blosxom.cgi\\\/2002\\\/Mar\\\/7&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 09:12:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 13:48:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 04:17:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 22:55:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 22:55:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Janet Asimov, in a biography of her late husband Isaac Asimov (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1573929689\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The books not out yet, but could be an interesting read.\">It&#8217;s Been A Good Life<\/a>), has revealed that he actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blosxom.cgi\/2002\/Mar\/7#asimov\" title=\"Charlie's Diary\">died of AIDS<\/a> contracted during bypass surgery, but the doctor at the time advised that the information not be disclosed to the public. Interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Asimov, in a biography of her late husband Isaac Asimov (It&#8217;s Been A Good Life), has revealed that he actually died of AIDS contracted during bypass surgery, but the doctor at the time advised that the information not be disclosed to the public. Interesting&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[2060],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-isaac-asimov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}