{"id":1709,"date":"2009-02-27T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2009\/02\/rocky_rip\/"},"modified":"2009-02-27T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T18:49:25","slug":"rocky_rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2009\/02\/rocky_rip.html","title":{"rendered":"Rocky, R.I.P.: Did the Wrong One Die?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/photos\/2009\/feb\/27\/130341\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"'The final front page. [Click to enlarge]'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2009\/02\/RockyMountainNewsFinalfrontpage-thumb-200x261-3783.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"261\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>A moment of silence, please, for the Rocky Mountain News, which published its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/27\/goodbye-colorado\/\">final edition<\/a>. I have a sentimental attachment to the paper because many years ago it helped me survive as a freelance. Its feature editors bought the arts stories I pitched them. They didn&#8217;t have a large freelance budget, so they didn&#8217;t buy as often as other major metro dailies. And they didn&#8217;t pay as well. But every sale helped. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/\">The Denver Post<\/a>, the Rocky&#8217;s rival, never bought anything. Not once. As I recall, it never even responded to my pitches. I don&#8217;t live in Colorado and don&#8217;t read either paper. Maybe the Post is less aloof these days. Times change. But let me take a wild guess: The better of the two papers &#8212; the one with more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/27\/rocky-kept-swinging-until-the-very-end\/\">punch and personality<\/a> &#8212; is the one that died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moment of silence, please, for the Rocky Mountain News, which published its final edition. I have a sentimental attachment to the paper because many years ago it helped me survive as a freelance. Its feature editors bought the arts stories I pitched them. They didn&#8217;t have a large freelance budget, so they didn&#8217;t buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-rz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","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=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}