{"id":9484,"date":"2012-08-06T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T09:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/06\/victor-davis-hanson-on-gore-vidal\/"},"modified":"2012-08-06T09:56:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T09:56:51","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-on-gore-vidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/06\/victor-davis-hanson-on-gore-vidal\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson on Gore Vidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/remembering-the-dead-from-selma\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>.&#0160; Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For all his claims of erudition, Vidal suffered the wages of the public autodidact. I noticed he quoted Latin ad nauseam \u2014 and nearly always with his nouns and adjectives not just in the wrong cases (especially the confusion of the accusative and ablative in preposition phrases), but predictably in the fashion of those who like to copy down Latin phrases but cannot read a complete Latin sentence. By his sixties, Vidal had degenerated <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2010\/10\/11\/on-experiencing-gore-vidals-favorite-word\/\">into a conspiracy theorist<\/a>, and his embarrassing late-life <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2001\/09\/mcveigh200109\">infatuation with Timothy McVeigh<\/a> caught the eye of the goddess Nemesis.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here.&#0160; Excerpt: For all his claims of erudition, Vidal suffered the wages of the public autodidact. I noticed he quoted Latin ad nauseam \u2014 and nearly always with his nouns and adjectives not just in the wrong cases (especially the confusion of the accusative and ablative in preposition phrases), but predictably in the fashion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/06\/victor-davis-hanson-on-gore-vidal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Victor Davis Hanson on Gore Vidal&#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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484","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=9484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}