{"id":987,"date":"2005-01-25T10:32:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/01\/canonizing_carson\/"},"modified":"2005-01-25T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T18:32:38","slug":"canonizing_carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/01\/canonizing_carson.html","title":{"rendered":"CANONIZING CARSON"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s tonnage<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> was not
\nenough. Now comes David Thomson<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> to
\nlend his expert opinion on the subject of Johnny Carson with an eloquence that has turned
\nspuriouser and spuriouser. Calling Carson “a great movie star” and “a romantic icon,”
\ndespite appearances, Thomson also declares him “a master spy” and “an immaculate
\nsecret.” Topping all of that, he canonizes Carson as the holy ghost of the Great Communicator.
\n“I’d guess that Ronald Reagan had spent years studying Mr. Carson’s easy persona,” Thomson
\nwrites. But for whatever reason — perhaps because it’s not subtle enough — he fails to mention the
\nfact that Johnny Carson and Jesus Christ shared the same initials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s tonnage was not enough. Now comes David Thomson to lend his expert opinion on the subject of Johnny Carson with an eloquence that has turned spuriouser and spuriouser. Calling Carson “a great movie star” and “a romantic icon,” despite appearances, Thomson also declares him “a master spy” and “an immaculate secret.” Topping all of that, he […]<\/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-987","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-fV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","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=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}