{"id":3726,"date":"2012-02-20T18:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2012-02-19T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T17:05:42","slug":"jack-kerouac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=3726","title":{"rendered":"A Bottle of Jack Kerouac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the classes where I&#8217;m a projectionist, they showed a documentary on Jack Kerouac.  It included a few clips from this episode of William F. Buckley&#8217;s show &#8220;Firing Line&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oaBnIzY3R00\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;ve got very little sympathy for Kerouac &#8211; showing up drunk for the show and blabbering on like he does is beyond unprofessional.  But I can see why he&#8217;d need some insulation between himself and reality here.  Every time Buckley opens his mouth and drones on in his smug, condescending voice&#8230; Well, if he were alive I&#8217;d want to slap him.  As it is, I fight the urge to rent a back-hoe, dig him up and turn his blithering skull into a bathroom fixture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the classes where I&#8217;m a projectionist, they showed a documentary on Jack Kerouac. It included a few clips from this episode of William F. Buckley&#8217;s show &#8220;Firing Line&#8221;&#8230; Honestly, I&#8217;ve got very little sympathy for Kerouac &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=3726\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[24,28],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-personal-blather","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3736,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}