{"id":610,"date":"2004-12-12T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T17:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/12\/12\/issues-of-concern-to-people-who-ride-tarc-a-lot\/"},"modified":"2004-12-12T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2004-12-12T17:38:26","slug":"issues-of-concern-to-people-who-ride-tarc-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/12\/12\/issues-of-concern-to-people-who-ride-tarc-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues of concern to people who ride TARC a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to write about the three locally available tabloid-style free newsweeklies in Louisville (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leoweekly.com\/\" title=\"Increasingly ridding themselves of worthwhile columnists in favor of editor John Yarmuth's tired party line.\">LEO<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snitch.com\/\" title=\"More interested in franchising opportunities than journalism.\">Snitch<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velocityweekly.com\/\" title=\"Put up billboards announcing their own birthday, as if anyone else was wondering and cared.\">Velocity<\/a>) one of these days.  I don&#8217;t have time right now.  But in case you need a quick way to figure out which is by far the worst and most vapid, I pose this question:<\/p>\n<p>Of LEO, Snitch and Velocity, which would bald-facedly publish the sentence<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Think precious, not pompous: The 36-page books, which sell for $12, teach values and lessons and record special moments, which is exactly the purpose of literature.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<p>(That&#8217;s right.  <i>Exactly the purpose of literature.<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>If you live in Louisville, of course, you&#8217;ve already guessed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velocityweekly.com\/life\/family.html\" title=\"Thanks for your time, lit students of the world!  You can go home now.\">the answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to write about the three locally available tabloid-style free newsweeklies in Louisville (LEO, Snitch and Velocity) one of these days. I don&#8217;t have time right now. But in case you need a quick way to figure out which is by far the worst and most vapid, I pose this question: Of LEO, Snitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kentucky","category-tarc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}