{"id":40762,"date":"2017-11-24T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40762"},"modified":"2018-09-08T20:49:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:49:02","slug":"not-guided-by-policy-hunter-s-thompson-and-the-birth-of-gonzo-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/24\/not-guided-by-policy-hunter-s-thompson-and-the-birth-of-gonzo-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Guided by Policy: Hunter S. Thompson and the Birth of Gonzo Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QY0a_zosYkE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Today I Found Out<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 6 Nov 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this video:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.\u201d This is the opening line from the highly acclaimed roman \u00e0 clef <em>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream<\/em> written by Hunter S. Thompson, one of America\u2019s most countercultural and anti-authoritarian writers. The untamed master of his own self-titled genre, \u201cgonzo journalism,\u201d Thompson set ablaze the American standards for journalism during the 1960s and 70s with a cornucopia of drugs, alcohol, gun toting, and most notably, his exemplary writing.<\/p>\n<p>Want the text version?: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/not-guided-policy-act-gonzo\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/not-guided-policy-act-gonzo\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I Found Out Published on 6 Nov 2017 In this video: \u201cWe were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.\u201d This is the opening line from the highly acclaimed roman \u00e0 clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of [&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":[7,28,53,18,13],"tags":[311,263,104,119,1230,134],"class_list":["post-40762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-politics","category-sports","category-usa","tag-1960s","tag-1970s","tag-booze","tag-drugs","tag-huntersthompson","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aBs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40762","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=40762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40763,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40762\/revisions\/40763"}],"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=40762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}