{"id":1585,"date":"2014-09-29T18:05:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/bookclub\/cgi-bin\/wordpress\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2014-09-29T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T18:13:58","slug":"gore-vidal-remembering-italo-calvino-he-was-the-only-great-writer-of-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Gore Vidal remembering Italo Calvino: \u201cHe was the only great writer of my time.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1765\" title=\"12\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/12-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/12-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/12.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a>Novelist, essayist, and man of letters Gore Vidal has been credited with bringing an American audience to Italo Calvino, who became a close friend. No one could be snootier than the controversial Vidal, so it&#8217;s especially impressive and moving to watch him drop to one knee to do homage to the man he addressed as &#8220;Maestro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nd3hGhv861Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist, essayist, and man of letters Gore Vidal has been credited with bringing an American audience to Italo Calvino, who became a close friend. No one could be snootier than the controversial Vidal, so it&#8217;s especially impressive and moving to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=1585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}