{"id":4351,"date":"2009-06-11T01:44:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:17:18","slug":"the-duke-of-americana-thirty-years-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/the-duke-of-americana-thirty-years-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duke of <em>Americana<\/em>, Thirty Years Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t be wronged. I won&#8217;t be insulted. I won&#8217;t be laid a hand on. I don&#8217;t do these things to other people and I require the same from them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Wayne in <em>The Shootist<\/em> (1976).<\/p>\n<p>My general awareness of Marion Morrison, aka, &#8220;John Wayne,&#8221; started early on. My father (along with my paternal grandfather) was and is a John Wayne <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4404\" title=\"shootist\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/shootist-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"shootist\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/shootist-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/shootist.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>fan. I was probably viewing John Wayne flicks in the cradle. My specific <em>knowing<\/em> of whom John Wayne was, without a doubt, began when I watched a broadcast of <em>True Grit<\/em> right before I entered the double-digit stage of my lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>John Wayne, portraying Rooster Cogburn, was a dangerous man. I definitely figured that out, way back in 1976. One film critic described the Duke as embodying a spirit of &#8220;muscular Americanism.&#8221; Whether one agrees with all that implies, John Wayne most emphatically did so. Just as Conan of Cimmeria, without a doubt, personified Robert E. Howard&#8217;s vision of &#8220;muscular barbarism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Wayne died thirty years ago today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It&#8217;s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we&#8217;ve learnt something from yesterday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Inscription on John Wayne&#8217;s headstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t be wronged. I won&#8217;t be insulted. I won&#8217;t be laid a hand on. I don&#8217;t do these things to other people and I require the same from them.&#8221; John Wayne in The Shootist (1976). My general awareness of Marion Morrison, aka, &#8220;John Wayne,&#8221; started early on. My father (along with my paternal grandfather) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,33,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-motifs-in-rehs-work","category-westerns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16676,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/16676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}