{"id":2549,"date":"2011-12-16T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:52:54","slug":"man-loved-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2549","title":{"rendered":"THE MAN WE LOVED TO HATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/16\/showbiz\/christopher-hitchens-obit\/index.html\">Christopher Hitchens<\/a> died yesterday. He was often exasperating, always with a point of view that forced one to reexamine one&#8217;s own thoughts. Despite the fact I did not always agree with him, I admired him. His reflections did often force me to reconsider my own. It is a void that needs filling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens died yesterday. He was often exasperating, always with a point of view that forced one to reexamine one&#8217;s own thoughts. Despite the fact I did not always agree with him, I admired him. His reflections did often force me to reconsider my own. It is a void that needs filling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063],"tags":[2557],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christopher-hitchens","tag-christopher-hitchens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}