[Bug]: Hugo 0.157.0 Breaking change with RSS.xml
bug
### What happened?
ERROR error building site: render: [en v1.0.0 guest] failed to render pages: render of "/projects" failed: "PATHEHERE\themes\PaperMod\layouts\_default\rss.xml:10:11": execute of template failed: template: rss.xml:10:11: executing "remplate failed: template: rss.xml:10:11: executing "rss.xml" at <site>: can't evaluate field Author in type interface {}
After having updated to Hugo 0.157.0, upon executing a Hugo serve action, I get the above error message. Having looked very briefly at the affected code, it appears to represent a feature that was being deprecated, that now may be fully removed, but I'm unsure. Specifically affecting the site RSS author information and the data structure it uses to store it.
### Steps to reproduce
1. Update to the current version of Hugo, which at time of writing is 0.157.0
2. Hugo Serve -D
Observe error
### Hugo Version
Hugo >= 0.146.0 (Recommended - Minimum version required for PaperMod)
### PaperMod Version
3bb0ca2
### What kind of devices are you seeing the problem on?
Desktop
### What browsers are you seeing the problem on?
Chrome
### Browser Version
_No response_
### Relevant log output
```shell
Watching for changes in D:/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/archetypes, D:/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/assets, D:/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/content/{about,posts,projects}, D:/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/data, D:/CodeRepos/web/Lewweb/LewisJBowman.github.io/data, D:/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/i18n, D:/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/layouts/shortcodes, D:/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/static, D:/CodeRepos/web/Lewis/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/themes/PaperModJBowman.github.io/themes/PaperMod/assets/{css,js}, D:/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/themes/PaperMod/i18n, D:/CodeRepos/web/LewisJBowman.github.io/themes/PaperMod/layouts/{_default,partials,shortcodes}
Watching for config changes in D:\CodeRepos\web\LewisJBowman.github.io\hugo.toml
Start building sites …
hugo v0.157.0-7747abbb316b03c8f353fd3be62d5011fa883ee6+extended windows/amd64 BuildDate=2026-02-25T16:38:33Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
Built in 17 ms
ERROR error building site: render: [en v1.0.0 guest] failed to render pages: render of "/projects" failed: "D:\CodeRepos\web\LewisJBowman.github.io\themes\PaperMod\layouts\_default\rss.xml:10:11": execute of template failed: template: rss.xml:10:11: executing "remplate failed: template: rss.xml:10:11: executing "rss.xml" at <site>: can't evaluate field Author in type interface {}
```
### Repository/Source Code link where this issue can be reproduced
_No response_
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