{"id":50645,"date":"2011-12-15T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=50645"},"modified":"2011-12-15T17:56:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:56:41","slug":"george-whitman-1913-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/photo-of-the-day\/george-whitman-1913-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"George Whitman, 1913-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50658\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/600a+web-Y900_george-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/600a+web-Y900_george-1.jpg?resize=600%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"600a+web-Y900_george-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/600a+web-Y900_george-1.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/600a+web-Y900_george-1.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Whitman in front of Shakespeare & Co. Books, 2005. Photo by Eric Francis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>George Whitman was the founder of Shakespeare &#038; Co. Books version 2.0 (another store by the same name preceded this one), located at &#8220;kilometer zero&#8221; (the exact center of Paris, across from Notre Dame plaza and the Archeological Crypt of Paris). About 57 years ago, George took over the name of a prior bookshop and created a Beat Generation literary base on par with City Lights Books of San Francisco. Since then, he estimated that 50,000 young writers have stayed at his bookstore free of charge, in little beds scattered throughout the shop&#8217;s several levels. He was a contemporary of such Beat poets as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Despite references in the press, there is no proof that he was directly related to the American poet Walt Whitman. We are sad to report that George died in Paris on Wednesday, at age 98. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Whitman was the founder of Shakespeare &#038; Co. Books version 2.0 (another store by the same name preceded this one), located at &#8220;kilometer zero&#8221; (the exact center of Paris, across from Notre Dame plaza and the Archeological Crypt of Paris). About 57 years ago, George took over the name of a prior bookshop and &#8230; <a title=\"George Whitman, 1913-2011\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/photo-of-the-day\/george-whitman-1913-2011\/\" aria-label=\"More on George Whitman, 1913-2011\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[948],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}