{"id":38794570,"date":"2007-04-13T00:17:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T00:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2007\/04\/kurt-vonnegut-p.html"},"modified":"2013-04-05T06:18:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T06:18:31","slug":"200704kurt-vonnegut-p-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/200704kurt-vonnegut-p-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut passes away at 84."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R.I.P. Mr. Vonnegut. Thanks for the great reads.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/\">Think Progress<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/04\/11\/kurt-vonnegut-passes-away-at-84\/#comments\">Kurt Vonnegut passes away at 84.<\/a>: &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like \u2018Slaughterhouse-Five,\u2019 \u2018Cat\u2019s Cradle\u2019 and \u2018God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater\u2019 caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/11\/books\/11cnd-vonnegut.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;%23038%3Boref=slogin\">died Wednesday night in Manhattan<\/a>. He was 84.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>From a 2003 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthesetimes.com\/comments.php?id=38_0_4_0_C\">interview<\/a> with In These Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_medium_quote\"><p>I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d\u2019etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka \u2018Christians,\u2019 and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or \u2018PPs.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Video of Vonnegut interviewed on the Daily Show is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/sitewide\/media_player\/play.jhtml?itemId=18090\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/\">Think Progress<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.I.P. Mr. Vonnegut. Thanks for the great reads. (Via Think Progress.) Kurt Vonnegut passes away at 84.: &#8220;\u2018Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like \u2018Slaughterhouse-Five,\u2019 \u2018Cat\u2019s Cradle\u2019 and \u2018God Bless You, Mr. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38794570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMeS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38794570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354131,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794570\/revisions\/173354131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38794570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38794570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38794570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}