{"id":7131,"date":"2024-06-03T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T02:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T02:20:01","slug":"episode-652-ellen-klages-and-the-ham-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2024\/06\/03\/episode-652-ellen-klages-and-the-ham-in-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 652: Ellen Klages and the Ham in Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this special short episode, Jonathan and Gary are joined by an old friend, Nebula and World Fantasy winner Ellen Klages, who recently gained an entirely new kind of recognition when she appeared on the long-running TV quiz show <em>Jeopardy<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uqvg8N9nc84\">recalled the \u201cscary ham\u201d story<\/a>, which she first <a href=\"https:\/\/reactormag.com\/the-scary-ham\/\">improvised at a Nebula ceremony ten years ago<\/a>, when called upon to fill time during a technical glitch.<\/p>\n<p>We not only touch upon the venerable history of the anecdote, but upon some other midwestern family memoirs, the use of autobiographical material in fiction, and the possibility of future memoirs. 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