{"id":1807,"date":"2010-10-31T18:01:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T01:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2010\/10\/a_mensch_died_today\/"},"modified":"2010-10-31T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T01:01:38","slug":"a_mensch_died_today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2010\/10\/a_mensch_died_today.html","title":{"rendered":"Ted Sorensen, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/nov\/01\/ted-sorensen-jfk-speechwriter-dies?CMP=EMCGT_011110&#038;\">Gone.<\/a> He was a real <em>mensch<\/em>. I had a short conversation with him in 2006 and asked him a few questions on the chance that he&#8217;d actually give me an answer. Which he did. This is what he said: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/03\/ted_sorensens_italics.html\">Ted Sorensen&#8217;s <em>Italics<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/03\/starry_rearview_mirror.html\">Starry Rearview Mirror<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jan-herman\/ted-sorensen-rip_b_776834.html\">(Crossposted at HuffPo)<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> Nov. 3 &#8212; And now the BananaRepublic has spoken. <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.nytimes.com\/2010\/results\/house\">Ugh.<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>PPS:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/03\/nobody-cares-about-process\/\">Paul Krugman nails it<\/a>, as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone. He was a real mensch. I had a short conversation with him in 2006 and asked him a few questions on the chance that he&#8217;d actually give me an answer. Which he did. This is what he said: Ted Sorensen&#8217;s Italics and Starry Rearview Mirror. (Crossposted at HuffPo) Postscript: Nov. 3 &#8212; And now [&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-1807","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-t9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","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=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}