{"id":7606,"date":"2014-10-31T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/31\/october-ends-3\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:59:05","slug":"october-ends-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/31\/october-ends-3\/","title":{"rendered":"October Ends . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">. . . and we say farewell once again to Jack Kerouac, <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/10\/cat-blogging-friday-jack-and-tyke-and-this-strange-scandalous-death.html\" target=\"_self\">cat man and mama&#39;s boy<\/a>, as he prepares to &quot;leave all San Francisco behind and go back home across autumn America&quot; proving once again to his romantic predecessor Thomas Wolfe that one <em>can<\/em> go back home again where &quot;it&#39;ll all be like it was in the beginning &#8212; Simple golden eternity blessing all . . . My mother&#39;ll be waiting for me glad &#8212; the corner of the yard where Tyke is buried will be a new and fragrant shrine making my home more homelike somehow &#8212; On soft Spring nights I&#39;ll stand in the yard under the stars &#8212; Something good will come out of all things yet &#8212; And it will be golden and eternal just like that &#8211; There&#39;s no need to say another word.&quot; (<em>Big Sur<\/em>, 1962, last lines, last page.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It&#39;s a good last word: <em>something good will come of it all<\/em>: of all of the wandering, all of the searching, all of the pain, and misery, and drunken folly, and lonely nights, and broken dreams.&#0160; The vanity will give way to vision.&#0160; The beat will taste beatitude.&#0160; The road will end and the restless will rest.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . and we say farewell once again to Jack Kerouac, cat man and mama&#39;s boy, as he prepares to &quot;leave all San Francisco behind and go back home across autumn America&quot; proving once again to his romantic predecessor Thomas Wolfe that one can go back home again where &quot;it&#39;ll all be like it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/31\/october-ends-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;October Ends . . .&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606","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=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}