{"id":361,"date":"2003-09-03T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T18:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/09\/random_notes\/"},"modified":"2003-09-03T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2003-09-03T18:17:03","slug":"random_notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/09\/random_notes.html","title":{"rendered":"RANDOM NOTES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Few paragraphs capture what has become of the culture better than this one <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A5376-2003Aug30.html\"><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399><EM>from the Washington Post:<\/EM><\/FONT><\/B><\/A> &#8220;Back in its<br \/>\nheyday, Playboy ran interviews with such luminaries as Marshall McLuhan, Martin Luther King<br \/>\nJr. and Allen Ginsberg. Now it runs interviews with Lisa Marie Presley, Jimmy Kimmel and Tobey<br \/>\nMaguire. [Hugh] Hefner blames this editorial devolution on the times.&#8221; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Meantime, my favorite celebrity critic and tabloid connoisseur is on a run. Check <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/weisblogg.pitas.com\/\"><EM><STRONG><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Weisblogg<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A> for the last few days, and you&#8217;ll<br \/>\nsee what I mean. He draws a bead&nbsp;on every rag from Oui magazine to The New York<br \/>\nTimes SundayStyles section. He also guages public taste by, among other things, going to the<br \/>\nlibrary to see what heavily hyped titles people are checking out.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few paragraphs capture what has become of the culture better than this one from the Washington Post: &#8220;Back in its heyday, Playboy ran interviews with such luminaries as Marshall McLuhan, Martin Luther King Jr. and Allen Ginsberg. Now it runs interviews with Lisa Marie Presley, Jimmy Kimmel and Tobey Maguire. [Hugh] Hefner blames this editorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-361","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-5P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}