{"id":564,"date":"2005-02-21T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=564"},"modified":"2005-02-21T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T09:25:00","slug":"rip-hunter-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"RIP &#8211; Hunter Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the truly weird and powerful people in the world is now gone from it.  By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/books\/02\/21\/thompson.obit\/index.html\">several reports<\/a> he did the deed himself with a gunshot to the head.  Somewhat appropriate, given that he had spent 67 years demonstrating that nothing *else* in the world could kill him.    <\/p>\n<p>When I was little, I burrowed my way into my parents collection of Doonesbury comics.  My favorite character was Duke, loosely modeled off of Hunter T.  I think that &#8220;Hells Angels&#8221; may have been the only book that my parents ever took out of my hands for a couple of years, saying that I was too young for it.  He was wild and crazy and fearless and truly lived free.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that someone will look after his peacocks, and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangewords.com\/archive\/geek.html\">similarly free<\/a> people keep pushing back the boundaries of what&#8217;s okay to think and to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the truly weird and powerful people in the world is now gone from it. By several reports he did the deed himself with a gunshot to the head. Somewhat appropriate, given that he had spent 67 years demonstrating that nothing *else* in the world could kill him. When I was little, I burrowed [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}