{"id":1433,"date":"2007-04-12T05:57:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2007-04-12T05:57:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T10:57:04","slug":"kurt-vonnegut-1922-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1433","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to name an author that properly reporesented my home state, it would be&#8230; Jean Shepherd. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0704120009apr12,1,2511007.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed\">Vonnegut <\/a>was a hoosier in the way Letterman was a hoosier- only until he could get the hell out. Yeah, that&#8217;s true of Shepherd too, but while he was here he slipped the surly bonds of the planet, not the state. <\/p>\n<p>Vonnegut wrote some interesting books, but he was a pacifist asshole, even though he had seen the stupidity pacifism drags in it&#8217;s wake firsthand. <\/p>\n<p>I could never wish ill on the man, he entertained me for a good deal of my youth. I hope he went without undue pain. I&#8217;m glad for the navel-gazing he helped me do in my younger years. I&#8217;m sure for years to come, hippies will be reading his shit and smoking dope and protesting war in all it&#8217;s forms. <\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Kilgore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to name an author that properly reporesented my home state, it would be&#8230; Jean Shepherd. Vonnegut was a hoosier in the way Letterman was a hoosier- only until he could get the hell out. Yeah, that&#8217;s true of Shepherd too, but while he was here he slipped the surly bonds of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}