{"id":258,"date":"2005-09-15T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T02:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2005-09-15T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T02:17:45","slug":"the-consummate-bohemian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/the-consummate-bohemian\/","title":{"rendered":"the consummate bohemian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Altenberg, Peter (1859-1919)<\/p>\n<p>Poet, Man of Letters, Prose Writer (Aphorisms, Sketches).<br \/>\nActive 1896-1919 in Vienna, Austria, Continental Europe<\/p>\n<p>A lifelong bachelor and hotel-dweller, he owned little and had few ties or constraints, collecting post-cards rather than paintings, writing miniature pieces or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153extracts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rather than novels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Altenberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s image as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153character\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is reinforced by an eerily realistic, life-sized statue of him in the Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Central in Vienna, where he sits at a table among the other guests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>His realization of the potential of impressionist literature, his unique \u00e2\u20ac\u0153telegram style of the soul\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and his contributions to the genres of aphorism, sketch, fragment, and prose poem remain remarkable to this day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litencyc.com\/php\/speople.php?rec=true&#038;UID=5806\">Literary Encyclopedia: Altenberg, Peter<\/a>, by Pamela Saur, Lamar University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altenberg, Peter (1859-1919) Poet, Man of Letters, Prose Writer (Aphorisms, Sketches). Active 1896-1919 in Vienna, Austria, Continental Europe A lifelong bachelor and hotel-dweller, he owned little and had few ties or constraints, collecting post-cards&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}