{"id":29,"date":"2007-04-13T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/a-eulogy\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T05:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T05:41:00","slug":"a-eulogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/a-eulogy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Eulogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<table bgcolor=\"black\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/weblog\/kurtsigneg.jpg\" alt=\"Dark day for American Literature.\" \/><\/p>\n<td>We lost a good one yesterday in Kurt Vonnegut. When I was a kid, it felt revolutionary to read Kurt Vonnegut<em>, Jr.<\/em>, but somewhere a few years ago, his dad was long since dead, and I guess it&#8217;s traditional to drop the &#8216;Jr.&#8217; when there&#8217;s no chance of confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Kurt&#8217;s still my favorite fiction author, and while I can&#8217;t grieve an 84-year-old who claimed for years he was ready to go, I will miss his genius a lot.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost a good one yesterday in Kurt Vonnegut. When I was a kid, it felt revolutionary to read Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., but somewhere a few years ago, his dad was long since dead, and I guess it&#8217;s traditional to drop the &#8216;Jr.&#8217; when there&#8217;s no chance of confusion. Anyway, Kurt&#8217;s still my favorite fiction &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/a-eulogy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Eulogy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genius","category-vonnegut","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}