{"id":2395,"date":"2021-10-17T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/kerouac-no-role-model\/"},"modified":"2021-10-17T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:56:36","slug":"kerouac-no-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/kerouac-no-role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerouac No Role Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Lest I lead &#0160;astray any young and impressionable readers, I am duty-bound to point out that my annual October focus on Kerouac is by no means to be taken as an endorsement of him as someone to be imitated.&#0160; Far from it! He failed utterly to live up to the Christian precepts that he learned as a child and the Buddhist precepts he assiduously studied in the mid-1950s.&#0160; Not that he was a hypocrite; he was just a deeply flawed human being.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I just now recall a critique of Kerouac by Douglas Groothuis from some years ago.&#0160; (Old Memory Babe ain&#39;t got nothing on me.) &#0160;Ah yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/search?q=kerouac\" target=\"_self\">here it is<\/a>.&#0160; &#0160;I am in basic agreement with it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest I lead &#0160;astray any young and impressionable readers, I am duty-bound to point out that my annual October focus on Kerouac is by no means to be taken as an endorsement of him as someone to be imitated.&#0160; Far from it! He failed utterly to live up to the Christian precepts that he learned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/kerouac-no-role-model\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerouac No Role Model&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,40,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-literary-matters","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}