{"id":3521,"date":"2012-08-01T08:02:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/gore-vidal-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-08-07T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T15:07:04","slug":"gore-vidal-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/01\/gore-vidal-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore Vidal Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/169182\/remembering-gore-vidal#\" target=\"_blank\">from The Nation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Remembering Gore Vidal<\/h1>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/jon-wiener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Wiener<\/a>\u00a0on August 1, 2012 &#8211; 1:36 AM ET<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/sites\/default\/files\/user\/20\/vidal_img.jpg\" style=\"border: none; outline: none\" height=\"auto\" width=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Gore Vidal. (AP Photo\/file)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Victor Navasky tells one of the most revealing stories about Gore Vidal, who died July 31 in Los Angeles at age 86. In 1986, Gore wrote an essay for the magazine\u2019s 120th anniversary issue. Shortly after it was published, Victor was invited to lunch by the publisher of\u00a0<em>Penthouse<\/em> magazine, Bob Guccione, at his East Side townhouse, famous for its $200 million art collection. \u201cWe had barely consumed the\u00a0<em>amuse gueules<\/em> when Bob asked me how much it cost to get Gore Vidal to write his essay,\u201d Victor recalled. \u201cWhen I told him we had paid each contributor to that issue $25 and Gore got the same $25 that everyone else got, he almost choked on his Chateau Margaux and told me he had offered Vidal $50,000 to write an article for<em>Penthouse<\/em>\u00a0and Vidal declined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gore, who had accepted Victor\u2019s invitation to join the magazine in 1981 as a contributing editor, published forty-one articles in <em>The Nation<\/em> at those rates. Some of his most memorable quotes appeared in <em>The Nation<\/em>: \u201cWe are the United States of Amnesia,\u201d he wrote in 2004. \u201cWe learn nothing because we remember nothing.\u201d In that same essay he called the US a place where \u201cthe withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/169182\/remembering-gore-vidal#\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Nation<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Nation Remembering Gore Vidal Jon Wiener\u00a0on August 1, 2012 &#8211; 1:36 AM ET Gore Vidal. (AP Photo\/file) Victor Navasky tells one of the most revealing stories about Gore Vidal, who died July 31 in Los Angeles at age 86. In 1986, Gore wrote an essay for the magazine\u2019s 120th anniversary issue. Shortly after [&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-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","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=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}