{"id":722,"date":"2004-06-10T09:53:12","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/06\/morning_in_america\/"},"modified":"2004-06-10T09:53:12","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T16:53:12","slug":"morning_in_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/06\/morning_in_america.html","title":{"rendered":"MORNING IN AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Isn&#8217;t it romantic? &#8220;Let&#8217;s take a look back at the lifelong love affair of Nancy and Ron,&#8221; is how<br \/>\none MSNBC anchor put it yesterday morning, giving their relationship a first-name status usually<br \/>\nreserved for the likes of Antony and Cleopatra or Scarlett and Rhett.&#8221; How touching. And then a<br \/>\nfurther reach too far: &#8220;When Tom Brokaw of NBC suggested to Bob Dole that Ronald Reagan<br \/>\nhad been an inspiring flag-bearer for the World War II generation, it was a bit too much for Mr.<br \/>\nDole, who was wounded in Italy. He replied dryly that Mr. Reagan, who spent the war making<br \/>\nArmy training films in Hollywood, had never heard a shot fired.&#8221; <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/10\/politics\/10teevee.html\"><STRONG><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Thank you,<br \/>\nAlessandra<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A><STRONG><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>.<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it romantic? &#8220;Let&#8217;s take a look back at the lifelong love affair of Nancy and Ron,&#8221; is how one MSNBC anchor put it yesterday morning, giving their relationship a first-name status usually reserved for the likes of Antony and Cleopatra or Scarlett and Rhett.&#8221; How touching. And then a further reach too far: &#8220;When [&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-722","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-bE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}