{"id":2841,"date":"2011-06-04T12:47:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T16:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2012-11-12T21:42:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T01:42:59","slug":"confederacy-of-dunces-jk-toole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2011\/confederacy-of-dunces-jk-toole","title":{"rendered":"A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2842\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2842\" title=\"Ignatius J. Reilly\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ignatius-J.-Reilly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ignatius-J.-Reilly.jpg 200w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Ignatius-J.-Reilly-145x150.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: book cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>A Confederacy of Dunces<\/strong> is one of my all time favorites! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.gov\/about\/40th\/confederacy.html\" target=\"_blank\">The story behind the book<\/a> is almost as improbable&#8230; a <strong>first novel<\/strong> by a young unknown author who then commits <strong>suicide<\/strong>&#8230; a <strong>mother<\/strong> who refuses to give up after <strong>many rejections<\/strong>&#8230; a <strong>little help<\/strong> from an academic and the NEA&#8230; once published it takes off and wins the <strong>Pulitzer Prize<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2843\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2843\" title=\"eric_cartman\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eric_cartman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eric_cartman.png 300w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eric_cartman-150x137.png 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eric_cartman-272x250.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 85vw, 192px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">southpark.wikia.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ignatius J. Reilly<\/strong> is an original and compelling protagonist, a sort of <strong>perverse philosopher king<\/strong> (at least in his own mind!). As I recently re-read the book I made a connection that may not be coincidental. Could Ignatius have been part of the inspiration for <strong>Eric Cartman<\/strong> of South Park fame?!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Confederacy of Dunces is one of my all time favorites! The story behind the book is almost as improbable&#8230; a first novel by a young unknown author who then commits suicide&#8230; a mother who refuses to give up after many rejections&#8230; a little help from an academic and the NEA&#8230; once published it takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2011\/confederacy-of-dunces-jk-toole\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humor","category-people","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}