{"id":685,"date":"2004-03-31T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=685"},"modified":"2004-03-31T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T09:29:56","slug":"obligatory-drunken-hunter-thompson-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/obligatory-drunken-hunter-thompson-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory drunken Hunter Thompson link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Doc favors Duke in the Final Four. Safe to say that Duke does not favor him, considering his shenanigans during an alleged lecture in the mid-70s.<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=thompson\/040330\"> In his ESPN column,<\/a> HST quotes George Plimpton&#8217;s account of the point where things went too far (HST had just called the president of the university a &#8220;pig-fucker&#8221;) and &#8220;the Hook&#8221; was sent his way to usher him away from the podium.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The &#8220;hook&#8221; had been a small blond girl sent out by the head of the lecture committee; when Thompson saw her coming, he tossed the Wild Turkey, along with the ice cubes, high in the air, a fountain of resignation, and he walked off with her. He said that the booze had fetched up against the velvet curtain behind his head and left a noticeable stain that he hoped was still there &#8230; to backdrop future speakers as they leaned solemnly against the lectern.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HST&#8217;s stories are always wonderful, and some of them might actually be true. Not that I&#8217;d be brave enough to call him on it. He&#8217;s too cranky and heavily armed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doc favors Duke in the Final Four. Safe to say that Duke does not favor him, considering his shenanigans during an alleged lecture in the mid-70s. In his ESPN column, HST quotes George Plimpton&#8217;s account of the point where&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/obligatory-drunken-hunter-thompson-link\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}