{"id":14686,"date":"2026-10-25T18:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14686"},"modified":"2026-10-25T18:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:55:57","slug":"not-the-first-author-who-ended-up-hating-the-creation-everyone-loves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14686","title":{"rendered":"Not The First Author Who Ended Up Hating The Creation Everyone Loves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among my Facebook things today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14687\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/drwhoconandoyle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/drwhoconandoyle.jpg 526w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/drwhoconandoyle-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Poor guy. Everyone loves Sherlock and he came to dislike the character so much he tried to kill him off, and the public wouldn&#8217;t stand for it so he kept writing his stories. At least they made him money.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of poetry, and a number of works for the stage. He was knighted by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours.&#8221; -Wikipedia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the Sherlock Holmes stories, they appeal to my inner logic geek. And he always played fair with the reader. The pinnacle I think was the story <em>Silver Blaze<\/em>, which IMO is a spectacular display of logic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14688\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/adazzlingdisplyoflogic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/adazzlingdisplyoflogic.jpg 640w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/adazzlingdisplyoflogic-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay&#8230;a Dazzling display of logic. And yet all the pieces are there for the reader to discover along with Holmes.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t read it yet I can&#8217;t recommend it enough, and also, especially, the Jeremy Brett BBC version&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgkqdz2naGQ?si=z0gLIHv-AK6kzIVi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so sorry Sir Arthur&#8230;you wrote so many other wonderful works, and you really didn&#8217;t like Holmes, but there&#8217;s a reason he has a life in the ages to come. You gave us all something wonderful. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among my Facebook things today&#8230; Poor guy. Everyone loves Sherlock and he came to dislike the character so much he tried to kill him off, and the public wouldn&#8217;t stand for it so he kept writing his stories. At least they made him money. &#8220;He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,7],"tags":[103,55],"class_list":["post-14686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","tag-the-human-heart","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14690,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686\/revisions\/14690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}