{"id":345,"date":"2008-01-16T19:25:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2008-07-02T20:11:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T00:11:37","slug":"qa-with-vonnegut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A With Vonnegut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Deadeye Dick<\/em> by Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n<p>Grade: B<\/p>\n<p>Of <em>Deadeye Dick<\/em> I have not much to say. The final scene took place in a cemetery and one of the characters raised a ghost. For me, the real ghost was Kurt Vonnegut, who came to answer <a title=\"Dark Ages\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=265\">my question<\/a> from a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;Are we still living in the Dark Ages?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vonnegut replied, &#8220;You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages&#8212;they haven&#8217;t ended yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Dark Ages never end and each new generation just trades one form of darkness for another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut Grade: B Of Deadeye Dick I have not much to say. The final scene took place in a cemetery and one of the characters raised a ghost. For me, the real ghost was Kurt Vonnegut, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=345\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}