{"id":32462,"date":"2015-08-21T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32462"},"modified":"2018-09-08T20:49:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:49:29","slug":"studs-terkel-talks-to-hunter-s-thompson-about-the-hells-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/21\/studs-terkel-talks-to-hunter-s-thompson-about-the-hells-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Studs Terkel talks to Hunter S. Thompson about the Hell&#8217;s Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3QoKqEHS8s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 28 Jul 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep my mouth shut now. I\u2019ve turned into a professional coward.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Hunter S. Thompson in 1967<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell\u2019s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast. What he saw alongside this group of renegades on Harleys, these hairy outlaws who rampaged and faced charges of attempted murder, assault and battery, and destruction of property along the way &mdash; all of this became the heart of Thompson\u2019s first book: <em>Hell\u2019s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga<\/em>. Shortly after the book came out, Thompson sat down for a radio interview with the one and only Studs Terkel.<\/p>\n<p>CHOICE QUOTES<br \/>\n\u201cI can&#8217;t remember ever winning a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to take it out at night on the Coast Highway, just drunk out of my mind, ride it for 20 and 30 miles in just short pants and a t-shirt. It&#8217;s a beautiful feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c I tried to keep my eyes on him because I didn&#8217;t want to have my skull fractured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to get back at the people who put them in this terrible, this dead end, tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people who are most affected by this technological obsolescence are the ones least capable of understanding the reason for it, so the venom builds up much quicker. It feeds on their ignorance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 28 Jul 2015 \u201cI keep my mouth shut now. I\u2019ve turned into a professional coward.\u201d &#8211; Hunter S. Thompson in 1967 In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell\u2019s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast. What he saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[32,9,10,13],"tags":[311,343,262,1230],"class_list":["post-32462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-1960s","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-culture","tag-huntersthompson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8rA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32463,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32462\/revisions\/32463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}