{"id":5915,"date":"2014-04-17T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T21:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2014-04-17T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T21:26:18","slug":"adios-gabo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5915","title":{"rendered":"Adios, Gabo&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5917\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cien-anos-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cien-anos-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cien-anos.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a>If I had to move to a deserted island with only a dozen or so books for the rest of my life, one of them almost certainly would be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude\">100 Years of Solitude<\/a>, by Nobel prize winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I first read this book in the 1970s and it&#8217;s one of those books that I have re-read from cover to cover, once every decade or so, ever since. It is an absolutely remarkable, unique, wonderful story.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is no longer with us. Less than an hour ago, a breaking news e-mail from CNN informed me that he passed away after having been hospitalized for a lung and urinary tract infection. He was 87.<\/p>\n<p>I admit the news brought a tear to my eye.<\/p>\n<p>May he rest in peace, perhaps joining the Buendia family in Macondo. Adios, Gabo.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5915' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to move to a deserted island with only a dozen or so books for the rest of my life, one of them almost certainly would be 100 Years of Solitude, by Nobel prize winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I first read this book in the 1970s and it&#8217;s one of those <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5915' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5922,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/5922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}