{"id":1300,"date":"2005-11-04T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/11\/brits_take_to_their_hypewriter\/"},"modified":"2005-11-04T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T19:11:25","slug":"brits_take_to_their_hypewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/11\/brits_take_to_their_hypewriter.html","title":{"rendered":"BRITS TAKE TO THEIR HYPEWRITERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Charles and his now-legal paramour, Camilla, are being trailed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=367596&#038;in_page_id=1770\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>their visit<\/strong><\/font><\/a> to  the U.S. by a ragged army of U.K. reporters, each determined to come up with the royal goods, no matter how remote from reality. British news hounds were skewered 75 years ago by fellow Brit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk\/FWWwolfe.htm\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Humbert Wolfe<\/strong><\/font><\/a> in his famous ditty:<br \/>\n<i><strong>THE BRITISH JOURNALIST<\/strong><br \/>\n<font size=1>[Actual title: &#8220;Over the  Fire&#8221;]<\/font><br \/>\nYou cannot hope<br \/>\nto bribe or twist,<br \/>\nthank God! the<br \/>\nBritish journalist.<br \/>\nBut, seeing what<br \/>\nthe man will do<br \/>\nunbribed, there&#8217;s<br \/>\nno occasion to.<\/i><br \/>\nIn the intervening decades, things have gotten no better. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2004\/04\/hes_our_calvin.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Leon Freilich<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/i>, a Yank from Brooklyn with Brit connections, observes:<br \/>\n<i><strong>THE BRITISH JOURNALIST, STILL<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can expect<br \/>\nso very much<br \/>\nfrom someone with<br \/>\nthe British touch!<br \/>\nThe man&#8217;s a master<br \/>\nof depiction<br \/>\nand uses all<br \/>\nthe ways of fiction.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Charles and his now-legal paramour, Camilla, are being trailed on Humbert Wolfe in his famous ditty: THE BRITISH JOURNALIST [Actual title: &#8220;Over the Fire&#8221;] You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there&#8217;s no occasion to. In the intervening decades, things have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-kY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}