{"id":390,"date":"2007-04-13T07:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T07:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=390"},"modified":"2015-07-11T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T14:58:09","slug":"rip_kurt_vonneg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/04\/rip_kurt_vonneg.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP Kurt Vonnegut."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His appearance on Jon Stewart last year was one of the funniest things I&#8217;ve ever seen and fortunately for us, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/the_daily_show\/index.jhtml\">you can watch it on the web<\/a>.  In addition, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/shows\/the_daily_show\/extras\/vonneguts_list.jhtml\">the list <\/a>they refer to in that interview.<\/p>\n<p>He never lost his edge.  He never stopped saying the same simple message over and over:  War = Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Can you claim to be well-read if you skipped &#8220;Slaughterhouse Five&#8221;?  I think not!<\/p>\n<p>Who knows if this is accurate, but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_Vonnegut\">on Wikkipedia<\/a>, they cite his own grading of his books, and here are the four he graded highest:  &#8220;The Sirens of Titan&#8221;; &#8220;Mother Night&#8221;; &#8220;God Bless You, Mr Rosewater&#8221;; and &#8220;Jailbird&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His appearance on Jon Stewart last year was one of the funniest things I&#8217;ve ever seen and fortunately for us, you can watch it on the web. In addition, here&#8217;s the list they refer to in that interview. He never &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/04\/rip_kurt_vonneg.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25,15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-rip","category-recommending","category-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}