{"id":23810,"date":"2016-10-23T08:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=23810"},"modified":"2016-10-23T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T13:15:48","slug":"every-once-in-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/10\/every-once-in-a-while.html","title":{"rendered":"Every Once in a While &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the Sunday Review section of The New York Times publishes a striking opinion piece. It&#8217;s a rarity because the section is  consistently, even insistently dull. The piece is short, and it is clear from the way it ends on a note of biting but truth-telling sarcasm that the author, Paul Theroux, clearly does not expect his advice to be taken. Go read it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/pardon-the-american-taliban.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;_r=0\">Pardon the American Taliban<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><font size=5>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/people\/shows\/walker\/profile.html\">John Walker Lindh<\/a> was motivated by youthful idealism when he aided the Taliban. As a 24-year-old in Africa in the 1960s, I was no different.&#8217;<br \/> <strong><em>&#8212; Paul Theroux<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> Actually, this morning&#8217;s Sunday Review as a whole turns out to be an exception to the rule.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the Sunday Review section of The New York Times publishes a striking opinion piece. It&#8217;s a rarity because the section is consistently, even insistently dull. The piece is short, and it is clear from the way it ends on a note of biting but truth-telling sarcasm that the author, Paul Theroux, clearly does not [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media","7":"category-news","8":"category-political-culture","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6c2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23810","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=23810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23820,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23810\/revisions\/23820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}