{"id":132,"date":"2005-07-11T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/07\/11\/rip-claude-simon\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T03:09:45","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T10:09:45","slug":"rip-claude-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/07\/11\/rip-claude-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Claude Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4668371.stm\">Claude Simon passed<\/a> away.  He was 91 years old.<br \/>\nSimon died on Wednesday, but the death was only announced on Saturday &#8211; when he was buried in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/Claudesimon2.jpg\" alt=\"Claude Simon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a digital image of his book and his last sentence captured on the right.  Just leafing through the pages, his stream of consciousness writing run on with no separation of paragraph and chapters.<br \/>\nI confess not having finished reading his book beyond two pages, a fact should not discourage some readers for trying. <\/p>\n<p>From Independent on Claude Simon, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/people\/obituaries\/article298220.ece\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforbookculture.org\/context\/no4\/Taylor.html\">Reading Claude Simon<\/a> by John Taylor.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/maudnewton.com\/blog\/index.php?p=4956\">Maud Newton<\/a> &#8220;tried&#8221; one of Claude Simon&#8217;s novels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Simon passed away. He was 91 years old. Simon died on Wednesday, but the death was only announced on Saturday &#8211; when he was buried in Paris. Here is a digital image of his book and his last sentence captured on the right. Just leafing through the pages, his stream of consciousness writing run &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/07\/11\/rip-claude-simon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Claude Simon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-digital-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}