{"id":134,"date":"2006-03-12T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2006-03-12T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T11:23:00","slug":"coiner-of-gonzo-takes-a-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/coiner-of-gonzo-takes-a-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Coiner of &quot;Gonzo&quot; Takes a Taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4187\/1128\/1600\/cardoso.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4187\/1128\/400\/cardoso.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nomadics necrolog is sad to announce belatedly the passing  (\u201ctaking a taxi\u201d was his own euphemism) in late February of Bill Cardoso, the hip journalist who coined the term \u201cgonzo\u201d for his old friend, the earlier departed Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.  There\u2019s an excellent piece on Cardoso by novelist, screenwriter and fellow hipster  Lucian Truscott IV <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2006_03_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114210542839931768\">here<\/a>  on Digby\u2019s Hullabaloo blog.  There\u2019s also an obit in the March 5 issue of the SanFrancisco Chronicle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/03\/05\/BAGFOHIRT21.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea\">here<\/a>. I too hope that Cardoso\u2019s work will be republished, not only the 1984 collection<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> The Maltese Sangweech and Other Heroes<\/span>, which includes the African writing done during the months he hung out in Zaire waiting for the Ali-Foreman \u201cRumble in the Jungle\u201d to happen, but possibly an enlarged collection gathering later Cardoso pieces.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nomadics necrolog is sad to announce belatedly the passing (\u201ctaking a taxi\u201d was his own euphemism) in late February of Bill Cardoso, the hip journalist who coined the term \u201cgonzo\u201d for his old&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}