{"id":1942,"date":"2007-04-12T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/04\/goodbye-kurt-and-thanks-for-everything\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:44","slug":"goodbye-kurt-and-thanks-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/04\/goodbye-kurt-and-thanks-for-everything.html","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Kurt. And thanks for everything!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/Rh6H8mlBo3I\/AAAAAAAAAJw\/cGfk3f11UK0\/s1600-h\/Kurt+Vonnegut.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/Rh6H8mlBo3I\/AAAAAAAAAJw\/cGfk3f11UK0\/s400\/Kurt+Vonnegut.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> When I was a kid and the world was a very narrow place it was Science Fiction that gave me a hint the world, first might not actually be the way it was being sold to me, and second I had some possibilities of change in my own hands. My first writers were the likes of Robert Heinlein and Issac Asimov. However, when I discovered Kurt Vonnegut, that\u2019s when things really got weird. <\/p>\n<div><em><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Years later when I learned he was a Unitarian Universalist of the humanist flavor, I thought, but of course.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some worthy links:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siouxcityuu.org\/vonnegut.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.siouxcityuu.org\/vonnegut.htm<\/a> (Regarding Vonnegut\u2019s UU connections as well as his version of UU theology)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vonnegutweb.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.vonnegutweb.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_Vonnegut\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_Vonnegut<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vonnegut.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.vonnegut.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/Kurt_Vonnegut\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/Kurt_Vonnegut\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>so it goes\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-6852122818806380829?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid and the world was a very narrow place it was Science Fiction that gave me a hint the world, first might not actually be the way it was being sold to me, and second I had some possibilities of change in my own hands. 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