{"id":175461,"date":"2021-02-10T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/10\/not-sure-what-to-say-about-this-passing\/"},"modified":"2021-02-10T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T00:20:00","slug":"not-sure-what-to-say-about-this-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/10\/not-sure-what-to-say-about-this-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Sure What to Say About This Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/feb\/10\/larry-flynt-publisher-of-hustler-magazine-dies-aged-78\">has died at 78<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A self described, &#8220;Smut peddler and 1<sup>st<\/sup> Amendment activist,&#8221; he was profoundly sleazy, but a significant part of the judicial precedent on free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Also, where the rubber met the road, he had integrity, arguing against the execution of the man who shot and paralyzed him, and famously offered a million dollar bounty on sexual misconduct of members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>I have mixed emotions about him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, has died at 78. A self described, &#8220;Smut peddler and 1st Amendment activist,&#8221; he was profoundly sleazy, but a significant part of the judicial precedent on free speech. Also, where the rubber met the road, he had integrity, arguing against the execution of the man who shot and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-175461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}