{"id":73,"date":"2007-01-07T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/01\/07\/welcome-to-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-01-07T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T17:47:19","slug":"welcome-to-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/73","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Grief. I just read Keillor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/chi-0701030006jan03,1,5906084.column?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed&amp;ctrack=1&amp;cset=true\">first syndicated column of the year<\/a>. For somebody who got famous being humorous and touching at the same time, it&#8217;s painful to cringe through something with that much self-righteous venom. He&#8217;s far too good a writer to inflict that on a reader, but it was my choice to partake. It&#8217;s like deciding to sit in front of Meryl Streep and have her look directly at you and weep.\n<\/p>\n<p>Looking for an antidote, I sat down to watch a few minutes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/P._J._O'Rourke\/\">P.J. O&#8217;Rourke<\/a> on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktv.org\/indepth\/\">In Depth<\/a>,&#8221; who was talking about how much writers dislike the act of writing. He said something very close to this: &#8220;No writer who I respect says they love the writing part. I suppose the only people who love writing are bloggers. Blogs are free&#8212;and worth it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Yow. One of those days. I&#8217;d better go accomplish something.\n<\/p>\n<p>There you have it, Ian. You just got your money&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Grief. I just read Keillor&#8217;s first syndicated column of the year. For somebody who got famous being humorous and touching at the same time, it&#8217;s painful to cringe through something with that much self-righteous venom. He&#8217;s far too good a writer to inflict that on a reader, but it was my choice to partake. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20,44,16,48,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}