{"id":1236,"date":"2011-12-05T21:45:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T04:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/kurt-vonnegut-died-a-bitter-man-who-kept-thinking-he-was-a-failure-kurt-vonnegut\/"},"modified":"2011-12-05T21:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T04:45:28","slug":"kurt-vonnegut-died-a-bitter-man-who-kept-thinking-he-was-a-failure-kurt-vonnegut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/kurt-vonnegut-died-a-bitter-man-who-kept-thinking-he-was-a-failure-kurt-vonnegut\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut died a bitter man, who &#8220;kept thinking he was a failure&#8221; [Kurt Vonnegut]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Sometimes brilliance won&#8217;t look into a mirror but darkly, so sad<\/h2>\n<h2><img height=\"22\" alt=\"read\" style=\"display: inline;\" width=\"22\" \/>&nbsp;&#8211;><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/io9\/excerpts\/~3\/qIogAFBMDpU\/kurt-vonnegut-died-a-bitter-man-who-kept-thinking-he-was-a-failure\">Kurt Vonnegut died a bitter man, who &#8220;kept thinking he was a failure&#8221; [Kurt Vonnegut]<\/a><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 10px;\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5865297\/kurt-vonnegut-died-a-bitter-man-who-kept-thinking-he-was-a-failure\" title=\"Click here to read Kurt Vonnegut died a bitter man, who &amp;quot;kept thinking he was a failure&amp;quot;\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click here to read Kurt Vonnegut died a bitter man, who &amp;quot;kept thinking he was a failure&amp;quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.io9.com\/assets\/images\/8\/2011\/12\/small_37a9021801264a68904cf9b006edf9e7.jpg?resize=190%2C120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Click here to read Kurt Vonnegut died a bitter man, who &amp;quot;kept thinking he was a failure&amp;quot;\" width=\"190\" style=\"border-color: #b3b3b3; border-width: 0 1px 1px; border-style: none solid solid;\" \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\tKurt Vonnegut finally got his first major biography recently, and so far everybody who&#8217;s reviewed it has been shocked by one thing: just how bitter Vonnegut was, in his last years. Biographer Charles Shields spent a lot of time with Vonnegut while working on <em>And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life<\/em>.\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5865297\/kurt-vonnegut-died-a-bitter-man-who-kept-thinking-he-was-a-failure\" title=\"Click here to read more about Kurt Vonnegut died a bitter man, who &quot;kept thinking he was a failure&quot; [Kurt Vonnegut]\">More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a> \t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n<div> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/io9\/excerpts?a=qIogAFBMDpU:DMK1b_y-efE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/io9\/excerpts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/io9\/excerpts?a=qIogAFBMDpU:DMK1b_y-efE:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/io9\/excerpts?i=qIogAFBMDpU:DMK1b_y-efE:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/io9\/excerpts?a=qIogAFBMDpU:DMK1b_y-efE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/io9\/excerpts?i=qIogAFBMDpU:DMK1b_y-efE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/io9\/excerpts?a=qIogAFBMDpU:DMK1b_y-efE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/io9\/excerpts?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/io9\/excerpts\/~4\/qIogAFBMDpU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"95%\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"62%\">io9 <span>by Charlie Jane Anders<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"38%\">December 5, 2011 4:30 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<div>\n<p \/>Sent from my iPad<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/mclasen.posterous.com\/kurt-vonnegut-died-a-bitter-man-who-kept-thin\">mclasen&#8217;s posterous<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes brilliance won&#8217;t look into a mirror but darkly, so sad &nbsp;&#8211;>Kurt Vonnegut died a bitter man, who &#8220;kept thinking he was a failure&#8221; [Kurt Vonnegut] Kurt Vonnegut finally got his first major biography recently, and so far everybody who&#8217;s reviewed it has been shocked by one thing: just how bitter Vonnegut was, in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maccconsulting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-jW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}