{"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  (&#8220;taking a taxi&#8221; was his own euphemism) in late February of Bill Cardoso, the hip journalist who coined the term &#8220;gonzo&#8221; for his old friend, the earlier departed Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.  There&#8217;s 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&#8217;s Hullabaloo blog.  There&#8217;s 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&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">here<\/a>. I too hope that Cardoso&#8217;s 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 &#8220;Rumble in the Jungle&#8221; 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 (&#8220;taking a taxi&#8221; was his own euphemism) in late February of Bill Cardoso, the hip journalist who coined the term &#8220;gonzo&#8221; 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}]}}