{"id":72,"date":"2005-02-22T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-22T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:34:25","slug":"hunter-thompson-is-not-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/22\/hunter-thompson-is-not-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"HUNTER THOMPSON IS NOT DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cDon\u2019t believe their filthy lies.  Giblets saw the Good Doctor with his own two eyes just a few hours ago, heading north in the White Whale. He said he was headed up to heaven to shoot God. \u201cThe great bastard\u2019s in season and it\u2019s long overdue,\u201d the Godfather of Gonzo said as he dusted off his elephant gun. \u201cI have full reason to believe they will award me both the head and the tail. Expect me back by the apocalypse. \u201cGood hunting, Doctor Thompson. You\u2019ll be missed.\u201d\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/fafblog.blogspot.com\/2005_02_20_fafblog_archive.html#110897122984416138\">Giblets @ Fafblog<\/a>, 21FEB2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Gonzo is Dead! Long Live Gonzo!<\/strong> It\u2019s no secret that HST influenced me pretty seriously. His balls-to-the-wall reporting, especially \u201cFear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail \u201872\u201d,convinced me that journalism and history could have flavor and dissent should be scathing. In politics we usually have an indescribable sense that something\u2019s not right, like some invisible axe murder\u2019s creeping around coeds in a coffee shop. Then in walked the Good Doctor to burn a cigarette hole in the bastard\u2019s for head.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFour more years of George Bush will be like four more years of syphilis.\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/opendna.freeshell.net\/blog.cgi\/2004\/10\/25#HST.endorsement\">link<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His words always seemed a bit savage, maybe  too barbaric for polite company.  He wielded words like a meat hammer. We might have said it differently, been a bit more tactful and civilized. But then we\u2019d get wha twe got, so I can\u2019t help feel that a few more meat hammer wielding freaks in the newsrooms of America we got, so I can\u2019t help feel that a few more meat hammer wielding freaks in the newsrooms of America would be a good thing. Happy hunting, Hunter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t believe their filthy lies. Giblets saw the Good Doctor with his own two eyes just a few hours ago, heading north in the White Whale. He said he was headed up to heaven to shoot God. \u201cThe great bastard\u2019s in season and it\u2019s long overdue,\u201d the Godfather of Gonzo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}