{"id":28996,"date":"2017-01-09T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28996"},"modified":"2017-01-09T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T20:04:04","slug":"nat-hentoff-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/nat-hentoff-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Hentoff, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh damn. The great Nat Hentoff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/news\/nat-hentoff-legendary-voice-journalist-and-critic-dies-at-91-9543103\" target=\"_blank\">died over the weekend<\/a>. He was one of the most hardcore free-speech advocates of <em>several<\/em> generations, from the 1960s to the present.<\/p>\n<p>He was 91, so it&#8217;s easy to say his death was no tragedy. But the disappearance of a man like Hentoff is always a loss, and especially so in this time when woefully misnamed &#8220;progressives&#8221; militate against any speech they don&#8217;t approve of.<\/p>\n<p>Hentoff <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/359437\/what-i-learned-from-a-stiff-necked-jewish-atheist-like-nat-hentoff\/\" target=\"_blank\">set an impressive example<\/a> for other writers. And how many other lifelong leftist radicals could have also found happy homes with the Cato Institute and WorldNetDaily?<\/p>\n<p>What a shame and what a sad commentary that Hentoff&#8217;s death has barely made a ripple in the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh damn. The great Nat Hentoff died over the weekend. He was one of the most hardcore free-speech advocates of several generations, from the 1960s to the present. He was 91, so it&#8217;s easy to say his death was no tragedy. But the disappearance of a man like Hentoff is always a loss, and especially so in this time when woefully misnamed &#8220;progressives&#8221; militate against any speech they don&#8217;t approve of. Hentoff set an impressive example for other writers. And how many other lifelong leftist radicals could have also found happy homes with the Cato Institute and WorldNetDaily? What a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/nat-hentoff-rip\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nat Hentoff, RIP<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28999,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28996\/revisions\/28999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}