{"id":65,"date":"2003-02-17T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2003-02-17T21:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-07-07T12:32:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:32:15","slug":"hope-im-as-alive-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2003\/hope-im-as-alive-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut ranting, wahoooo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usually I save this space for MY rants, but this one<\/a> from Kurt<\/a> was too fun to pass up…<\/p>\n

Seems he spends his time drawing now, a shame given how well he rips it up when writing… but I can’t complain given the number of smiles he’s put on my face over the years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…and he can still do it when drawing, with stuff like this<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-global-issues","category-rants-and-raves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-13","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/vonnegut-on-npr\/","url_meta":{"origin":65,"position":0},"title":"Vonnegut on NPR","author":"Administrator","date":"January 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Kurt Vonnegut made my day yesterday with an interview on NPR, covering Intelligent Design, the religious right, and the fact that we've all been converted into bovine consumers...","rel":"","context":"In "Rants and Raves"","block_context":{"text":"Rants and Raves","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/global-issues\/rants-and-raves\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":688,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/9-5-david-sedaris-when-you-are-engulfed-in-flames\/","url_meta":{"origin":65,"position":1},"title":"8.5 David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed In Flames","author":"m","date":"January 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A Kurt Vonnegut for the short-attention-span generation. 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