{"id":1501,"date":"2006-11-13T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/11\/off_the_wall\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:10:14","slug":"off_the_wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/11\/off_the_wall.html","title":{"rendered":"OFF THE WALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-op-hiller12nov12,0,7271122.story?coll=la-opinion-center\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>most ridiculous thing you ever read<\/strong><\/font><\/a>? As if morale in the LA Times newsroom wasn&#8217;t low enough. Seems to me publisher David Hiller must have wanted to squash it further.<br \/>\nFirst he forces out the editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-384859~Los_Angeles_Times_editor_Dean_Baquet_is_forced_to_resign_over_cost_cutting_dispute.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#0033399>when they can&#8217;t agree<\/strong><\/font><\/a> on the paper&#8217;s future, then he offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2006\/11\/hiller_replies_to_lats_st.php\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>pap to the staff<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Now his <strike>mash<\/strike> squash note to Rummy Boy.<br \/>\nIdiot quiz for the day: True or false?<br \/>\n1) Hiller is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-hiller6oct06,0,682951.story?coll=la-home-headlines\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;a personable, funny and intellectually engaged executive.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br \/>\n2) Hiller is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/media\/article1963534.ece\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;the equivalent of a mafioso consigliere,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> also described as &#8220;a hard-nosed trial lawyer with no background in journalism.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\/test2.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Check your score.<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the when they can&#8217;t agree on the paper&#8217;s future, then he offers &#8220;a personable, funny and intellectually engaged executive.&#8221; 2) Hiller is Check your score.<\/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-1501","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-od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}