{"id":878,"date":"2004-10-20T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T16:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/vonneguts_final_chat_with_kilg\/"},"modified":"2004-10-20T09:28:46","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T16:28:46","slug":"vonneguts_final_chat_with_kilg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/vonneguts_final_chat_with_kilg.html","title":{"rendered":"VONNEGUT’S FINAL CHAT WITH KILGORE TROUT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Requiem for a Dreamer”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> is
\nmaking the rounds. It’s a conversation between Vonnegut and out-of-print science fiction writer
\nKilgore Trout, and turned out to be their last:<\/P>
\n


\n

Trout committed suicide by drinking Drano at midnight on October 15 in
\nCohoes, New York, after a female psychic using tarot cards predicted that the environmental
\ncalamity George W. Bush would once again be elected president of the most powerful nation on
\nthe planet by a five-to-four decision of the Supreme Court, which included “100 per-cent of the
\nblack vote.”<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

<\/P>
\n

And we thought there might be a glimmer of hope?<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Requiem for a Dreamer” is making the rounds. It’s a conversation between Vonnegut and out-of-print science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, and turned out to be their last: Trout committed suicide by drinking Drano at midnight on October 15 in Cohoes, New York, after a female psychic using tarot cards predicted that the environmental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}