{"id":824,"date":"2009-05-03T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2009\/05\/03\/tyson\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T00:04:00","slug":"tyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2009\/05\/03\/tyson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/felixgilman.com\/wordpress\/?p=260<\/p>\n<p>The central event in Tyson\u2019s life, of course, is his encounter with the philosopher Sir Alfred Jules Ayer, who was at the time 77 years old:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt yet another party [Ayer] had befriended [Fernando Sanchez, a fashionable designer]. Ayer was now standing near the entrance to the great white living-room of Sanchez\u2019s West 57th Street apartment, chatting to a group of young models and designers, when a woman rushed in saying that a friend was being assaulted in a bedroom. Ayer went to investigate and found Mike Tyson forcing himself on a young south London model called Naomi Campbell, then just beginning her career. Ayer warned Tyson to desist. Tyson: \u201cDo you know who the fuck I am? I\u2019m the heavyweight champion of the world.\u201d Ayer stood his ground. \u201cAnd I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field; I suggest that we talk about this like rational men.\u201d Ayer and Tyson began to talk. Naomi Campbell slipped out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/felixgilman.com\/wordpress\/?p=260 The central event in Tyson\u2019s life, of course, is his encounter with the philosopher Sir Alfred Jules Ayer, who was at the time 77 years old: \u201cAt yet another party [Ayer] had befriended [Fernando Sanchez, a fashionable designer]. Ayer was now standing near the entrance to the great white living-room of Sanchez\u2019s West 57th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}