{"id":191,"date":"2006-10-04T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=191"},"modified":"2006-10-04T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T04:15:00","slug":"robert-anton-wilson-needs-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT ANTON WILSON NEEDS HELP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t comics or cartooning related, but writer\/philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/rawilson.com\/\">Robert Anton Wilson<\/a>, co-author of <em>The Illuminatus Trilogy<\/em> and author of numerous other fine books, is very ill from post-polio syndrome and is in need of financial aid as he can not currently support himself and needs 24 hour healthcare. More info can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/rawilson.com\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/10\/03\/robert_anton_wilson_.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushkoff.com\/2006\/10\/robert-anton-wilson-needs-our-help.php\">here<\/a>. Fortunately, some people have organized a fund to help Wilson&#8230; two days ago he couldn&#8217;t pay his rent, and now things are looking better. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paypal.com\">You can donate to him via &#8220;send money&#8221; on paypal to his olgaceline@gmail.com email account. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wilson is my favorite author and has been a huge influence on me&#8230; indeed, there probably would not be a Cartoonist Conspiracy if I had never read Wilson. If you haven&#8217;t read any of his books I can&#8217;t recommend them highly enough. You can order his books <a href=\"http:\/\/rawilson.com\/bookstore.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t comics or cartooning related, but writer\/philosopher Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of The Illuminatus Trilogy and author of numerous other fine books, is very ill from post-polio syndrome and is in need of financial aid as he can not currently support himself and needs 24 hour healthcare. More info can be found here, here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ROBERT ANTON WILSON NEEDS HELP!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}