{"id":81649,"date":"2018-08-11T20:02:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T03:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/v-s-naipaul-nobel-winning-author-who-drew-admiration-and-revulsion-dies-at-85"},"modified":"2018-08-11T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T03:02:56","slug":"v-s-naipaul-nobel-winning-author-who-drew-admiration-and-revulsion-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/v-s-naipaul-nobel-winning-author-who-drew-admiration-and-revulsion-dies-at-85","title":{"rendered":"V.S. Naipaul, Nobel-winning author who drew admiration and revulsion, dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/v-s-naipaul-nobel-winning-author-who-drew-admiration-and-revulsion-dies-at-85.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose celebrated writing and brittle, provocative personality drew admiration and revulsion in equal measures, died Saturday at his London home, his family said. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-vs-naipaul-20180811-story.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-vs-naipaul-20180811-story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose celebrated writing and brittle, provocative personality drew admiration and revulsion in equal measures, died Saturday at his London home, his family said. He was 85.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}