{"id":580,"date":"2007-04-11T21:44:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T02:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/04\/11\/1176345884221.html"},"modified":"2007-04-11T21:44:44","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T02:44:44","slug":"blogentry-kurt-vonnegut-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen: <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/11\/books\/11cnd-vonnegut.html?hp&#034;>Kurt Vonnegut died<\/a>.  That sucks.  I just <a href=&#034;http:\/\/duanesbrain.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/kurt-vonnegut-on-writing.html&#034;>wrote about him<\/a> a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p\/>It&#039;s impossible to compare Vonnegut to any other writer.  Read one thing he&#039;s written, any single one, and you&#039;ll want to go out and get your hands on everything else.  Perhaps his most famous was Slaughterhouse Five, a war story with the simple twist that its hero, Billy Pilgrim, &#034;has come unstuck in time.&#034;  Or maybe it was Cat&#039;s Cradle and its examination of the fictional religion Bokononism.  Breakfast of Champions?  Harrison Bergeron?  Sirens of Titan, Player Piano?  I can&#039;t pick a favorite.  I may have to go up into my box in the attic and get them all out again. <\/p>\n<p\/><a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/04\/12\/remembering_kurt_von.html&#034;>BoingBoing.net is keeping track of all the tributes that are going up.<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p\/>Po-tee-wheet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen: Kurt Vonnegut died. That sucks. I just wrote about him a few weeks ago. It&#039;s impossible to compare Vonnegut to any other writer. Read one thing he&#039;s written, any single one, and you&#039;ll want to go out and get your hands on everything else. Perhaps his most famous was Slaughterhouse Five, a war story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}