{"id":29897,"date":"2011-12-17T03:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T03:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_memoriam_christopher_hitchens_19492011\/"},"modified":"2011-12-17T03:02:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T03:02:40","slug":"in_memoriam_christopher_hitchens_19492011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29897","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949\u201d\u201c2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens\u201d\u201dthe incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant\u201d\u201ddied today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 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\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens\u201d\u201dthe incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant\u201d\u201ddied today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29897\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,92,438,199,89,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-books","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-media","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}