{"id":9965,"date":"2016-12-13T20:09:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9965"},"modified":"2016-12-13T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:09:45","slug":"letters-of-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/letters-of-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters of Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across a website that has hundreds of fascinating letters from throughout history. The letters are serious, mysterious, and funny.<\/p>\n

Here’s an astonishing letter written by a freed slave to his former master:<\/p>\n

To My Old Master<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a brilliant letter written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to a school board head who burned his book Slaughterhouse-Five<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

I am very real<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s a letter from Gandhi to Hitler, a letter from Barack Obama to a kid with 2 dads, a letter from Beethoven to his “immortal beloved,” a letter from Douglas Adams to a movie studio executive, and several letters back and forth between Gene Roddenberry and Isaac Asimov.<\/p>\n

The archive is here, where you can search for letters based on various criteria:<\/p>\n

Letters of Note: Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across a website that has hundreds of fascinating letters from throughout history. The letters are serious, mysterious, and funny. Here’s an astonishing letter written by a freed slave to his former master: To My Old Master Here’s a brilliant letter written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. to a school board head who burned his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-9965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9966,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions\/9966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}