{"id":10490,"date":"2011-12-16T01:18:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T01:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/12\/16\/christopher-hitchens-has-died\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T01:18:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T01:18:18","slug":"christopher-hitchens-has-died-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/christopher-hitchens-has-died-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Hitchens has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/christopher-hitchens-a-vanity-fair-writer-was-a-religious-skeptic-and-acerbic-master-of-the-contrarian-essay\/2010\/12\/17\/gIQAtiBHxO_story.html?wpisrc=al_national\">The Washington Post reports:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted provocateur who used his formidable learning, biting wit and muscular prose style to skewer what he considered high-placed hypocrites, craven lackeys of the right and left, &#8220;Islamic fascists&#8221; and religious faith of any kind, died Thursday &#8220;from pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer,&#8221; according to Vanity Fair, the magazine for which Mr. Hitchens worked. He was 62.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports: Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted provocateur who used his formidable learning, biting wit and muscular prose style to skewer what he considered high-placed hypocrites, craven lackeys of the right and left, &#8220;Islamic fascists&#8221; and religious faith of any kind, died Thursday &#8220;from pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer,&#8221; according to Vanity Fair, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/christopher-hitchens-has-died-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christopher Hitchens has died<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Jc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}