{"id":28813,"date":"2013-10-02T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28813"},"modified":"2013-10-02T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:50:54","slug":"best-selling-author-tom-clancy-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28813","title":{"rendered":"Best Selling Author Tom Clancy Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 BALTIMORE (AP Oct 2,2013) &#8211; Tom Clancy, the best-selling author of &#8220;The Hunt for Red October&#8221; and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Penguin Group (USA) said Wednesday that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clancy arrived on best-seller lists in 1984 with &#8220;The Hunt for Red October.&#8221; He sold the manuscript to the first publisher he tried, the Naval Institute Press, which had never bought original fiction.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A string of other hits soon followed, including &#8220;Red Storm Rising,&#8221; &#8220;Patriot Games&#8221; and &#8220;Clear and Present Danger.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clancy had said his dream had been simply to publish a book, hopefully a good one, so that he would be in the Library of Congress catalog. Several of his books were later made into movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 BALTIMORE (AP Oct 2,2013) &#8211; Tom Clancy, the best-selling author of &#8220;The Hunt for Red October&#8221; and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Penguin Group (USA) said Wednesday that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28824,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28813\/revisions\/28824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}