{"id":66430,"date":"2023-06-14T05:35:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T10:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=66430"},"modified":"2023-06-14T05:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T10:45:08","slug":"in-memoriam-cormac-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/14\/in-memoriam-cormac-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Cormac McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"799\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cormac8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cormac8.jpg 799w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cormac8-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Cormac8-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cormac-mccarthy-dies-98a5936a9b89409a9485a3a2bf2208ea\">Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of \u2018The Road\u2019 and \u2018No Country for Old Men,\u2019 dies at 89<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One of the greatest writers of the 20th and 21st century has left us folks.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">His novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-Hardcover\/dp\/0679641041\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1686738694&amp;sr=8-1\">Blood Meridian<\/a> is in this writer&#8217;s humble opinion one of the finest western&#8217;s ever written and was a HUGE influence on me to begin writing.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thank you Cormac for letting us be spectators in your war against the blank page!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It was an Honor and a Privilege sir.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of \u2018The Road\u2019 and \u2018No Country for Old Men,\u2019 dies at 89 One of the greatest writers of the 20th and 21st century has left us folks. His novel Blood Meridian is in this writer&#8217;s humble opinion one of the finest western&#8217;s ever written and was a HUGE influence on me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3675,4634],"tags":[16014,15301,9281,16009],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66437,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66430\/revisions\/66437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}