{"id":15957,"date":"2012-08-01T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=15957"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:01:35","slug":"gore-vidal-1925-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/gore-vidal-1925-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore Vidal, 1925-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/gore-vidal-1925-2012\/vidal\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/vidal-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15962\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGore Vidal, a longtime critic of American imperialism, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2181914\/Gore-Vidal-dead-86-Legendary-author-playwright-politician-dies.html\">died Tuesday<\/a>. He was 86. <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/gore-vidal-rip\">Jesse Walker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/169184\/gore-vidal-and-unfinished-american-revolution\">John Nichols<\/a> have posted notable obituaries, and Salon.com has compiled several of Vidal&#8217;s memorable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/08\/01\/gore_vidal_live\/\">television appearances<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For those interested in exploring Vidal&#8217;s oeuvre, Justin Raimondo reviewed <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/patriotic-gore\/\">Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/j101800.html\">The Golden Age<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/j050901.html\">defended Vidal&#8217;s take on Timothy McVeigh<\/a>.  Bill Kauffman, whom Vidal dubbed &#8220;the sage of Batavia,&#8221; reviewed <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-populist-patriotism-of-gore-vidal\/\">Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-last-republican\/\">The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal<\/a><\/em> for <em>The American Conservative<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gore Vidal, a longtime critic of American imperialism, died Tuesday. He was 86. Jesse Walker and John Nichols have posted notable obituaries, and Salon.com has compiled several of Vidal&#8217;s memorable television appearances. For those interested in exploring Vidal&#8217;s oeuvre, Justin Raimondo reviewed Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson and The Golden Age and defended Vidal&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15957"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15972,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions\/15972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15957"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}