{"id":186095,"date":"2014-05-13T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/13\/the-world-just-got-a-bit-less-disturbing-and-a-lot-duller\/"},"modified":"2014-05-13T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T01:29:00","slug":"the-world-just-got-a-bit-less-disturbing-and-a-lot-duller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/13\/the-world-just-got-a-bit-less-disturbing-and-a-lot-duller\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Just Got a Bit Less Disturbing, and a Lot Duller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 200px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/F2LxYdp.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/F2LxYdp.jpg\" width=\"190\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">He first gained notice in the US with this cover for Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer&#8217;s Album <i>Brain Salad Surgery<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>H.R. Giger, the artist best know for designing the Alien for the eponymous film, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/legendary-alien-artist-h-r-giger-has-died-at-74-1575599496?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&amp;utm_source=io9_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\">is dead at age 74<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His work was profoundly disturbing, and brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He first gained notice in the US with this cover for Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer&#8217;s Album Brain Salad Surgery H.R. Giger, the artist best know for designing the Alien for the eponymous film, is dead at age 74. His work was profoundly disturbing, and brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,994],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186095"}],"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=186095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}