{"id":13901,"date":"2014-04-18T16:57:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13901"},"modified":"2014-04-18T16:57:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:57:46","slug":"on-the-passing-of-a-literary-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/04\/18\/on-the-passing-of-a-literary-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"on the passing of a literary giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/apr\/18\/gabriel-garcia-marquez-death-latin-america-reaction\">Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 He is noted by many literary fans for many an intelligent work of thought provoking literature hovering toward the genre of &#8220;Magic Realism&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 He is noted by many on the right for <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/politics\/2014\/04\/18\/amid-praise-for-gabriel-garcia-marquez-criticism-over-his-bond-with-fidel\/\">his support of Fidel Castro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know him first and foremost as the man who wrote the story that was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisa_the_Skeptic\">adapted into a classic episode of the Simpsons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Understand, years from now, I&#8217;ll note the passing away of Stephen Hawking by his appearances on the Simpsons.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s how I&#8217;ll frame the greats of the current age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away.\u00c2\u00a0 He is noted by many literary fans for many an intelligent work of thought provoking literature hovering toward the genre of &#8220;Magic Realism&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 He is noted by many on the right for his support of Fidel Castro. I know him first and foremost as the man who wrote the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13902,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions\/13902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}