{"id":2482,"date":"2015-02-11T22:15:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2015-02-11T22:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T03:15:41","slug":"that-playboy-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"That “Playboy” Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here, by popular request, is a sample of John’s ill-fated Playboy<\/em> article from 1966. I’ve posted a few things about this episode, but I suppose a synopsis is in order.<\/p>\n

After Playboy<\/em> published a letter<\/a> John wrote about the poet Maxwell Bodenheim, he pitched a few ideas for pieces. Playboy<\/em> turned down articles on science fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback, and on the old Hobo News<\/em>, but expressed interest in a short piece on UFOs, on spec. John decided to write the definitive article, and it grew longer and longer, as the correspondence grew more acrimonious. Eventually, the piece was rejected.<\/p>\n

It was to be called “Operation Trojan Horse,” although it had little to do with the later book. John kept a first draft; it’s very rough, 86 pages long, and mostly written on the back of stationery from Sandy Howard Productions (where John was working on the TV show “Mack & Myer for Hire”). Ivan Sanderson made a few marginal notes; I don’t know if he was critiquing it, or if he and John hoped to salvage material for their equally ill-fated UFO book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was John’s first UFO article, although he had previously written a radio script on the subject for American Forces Radio. It was mostly a catalog of the main sightings and encounters up to that time. Here are the first five pages. I’ve previously posted the outline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"OPERATION1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"OPERATION2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"OPERATION3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"OPERATION4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"OPERATION5\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here, by popular request, is a sample of John’s ill-fated Playboy article from 1966. I’ve posted a few things about this episode, but I suppose a synopsis is in order. After Playboy published a letter John wrote about the poet Maxwell Bodenheim, he pitched a few ideas for pieces. Playboy turned down articles on science […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}