{"id":3283,"date":"2011-12-17T13:42:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T20:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/hitchens-the-last-great-lover-of-sonnets-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:48:07","slug":"hitchens-the-last-great-lover-of-sonnets-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/17\/hitchens-the-last-great-lover-of-sonnets-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchens: The Last Great Lover of Sonnets Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2011\/12\/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011\" target=\"_blank\">from Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949\u20132011<\/h1>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/contributors\/juli-weiner\">Juli Weiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2011\/12\/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011\/_jcr_content\/par\/cn_contentwell\/par-main\/cn_blogpost\/cn_float_container\/cn_image.size.hitchens-2004-contributor-image.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Hitchens\u2014the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant\u2014died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir,\u00a0<em style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hitch-22-Memoir-Christopher-Hitchens\/dp\/0446540331\" target=\"_blank\">Hitch-22<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0since 1992, when he was named contributing editor.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/online\/daily\/2011\/12\/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Vanity Fair<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Vanity Fair In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949\u20132011 by Juli Weiner Christopher Hitchens\u2014the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant\u2014died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir,\u00a0Hitch-22,\u00a0and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}