{"id":6336,"date":"2012-08-01T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2012-08-01T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T00:09:06","slug":"gore-vidal-october-3-1925-july-31-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/gore-vidal-october-3-1925-july-31-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore Vidal October 3, 1925 \u2013 July 31, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gore Vidal died yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>I loved Gore Vidal&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375727051\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0375727051\">Creation: A Novel<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0375727051\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> for its interesting and quirky perspective of history, human nature, and religion.  He wrote some other good books too, and was an important figure in Humanism. The CFI has a word or two about him <a href=\"here\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gore Vidal died yesterday. I loved Gore Vidal&#8217;s book Creation: A Novel for its interesting and quirky perspective of history, human nature, and religion. He wrote some other good books too, and was an important figure in Humanism. The CFI has a word or two about him here.<\/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":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1Ec","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336"}],"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=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}