{"id":4578,"date":"2011-04-21T22:08:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T03:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2011-04-21T22:08:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T03:08:42","slug":"repost-the-pale-king-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/21\/repost-the-pale-king-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: The Pale King &#8211; Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>People keep asking me if somehow DFW&#8217;s suicide invalidates the message his writing, if it casts doubt on all his life&#8217;s work. I can&#8217;t say no strongly enough. No no no, it doesn&#8217;t. And I say this in part out of my own need to survive. Had someone not walked in and seen me certainly my life would have still been more than a prelude to that arbitrary moment. If someday my disease takes me, it takes me, but it can&#8217;t take away a single precious moment I have fought it off, a single moment I have shared with you, or a single moment he shared with us. Please forgive us our trips to the rafters, and don&#8217;t reduce us to that moment.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/04\/21\/the-pale-king.html\">The Pale King &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People keep asking me if somehow DFW&#8217;s suicide invalidates the message his writing, if it casts doubt on all his life&#8217;s work. I can&#8217;t say no strongly enough. No no no, it doesn&#8217;t. And I say this in part out of my own need to survive. Had someone not walked in and seen me certainly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/21\/repost-the-pale-king-boing-boing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: The Pale King &#8211; Boing Boing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}