{"id":178,"date":"2008-07-17T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/07\/well-excuse-me.html"},"modified":"2008-07-17T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T15:58:00","slug":"well-excuse-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/07\/well-excuse-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, Excuse Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7505953.stm\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44831000\/jpg\/_44831351_cartoon_ap226b.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2100593\">Terry Gross<\/a> started off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=13\">her show<\/a> by talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7505953.stm\">recent New Yorker<\/a> cover that&#8217;s caused quite a bit of hue and cry. To get the discussion going, she read quotes from reviewers on either side of the debate, including one that wondered &#8220;how the joke play out in middle America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hang on for a minute while I reconfigure my mental image of Mr. and Mrs. Middle America. Apparently they&#8217;re too unsophisticated to be included in the discussion about whether or not this was successful satire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Terry Gross started off her show by talking about the recent New Yorker cover that&#8217;s caused quite a bit of hue and cry. To get the discussion going, she read quotes from reviewers on either side of the debate, including one that wondered &#8220;how the joke play out in middle America.&#8221; Hang on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/07\/well-excuse-me.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well, Excuse Me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}