{"id":284,"date":"2005-12-10T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=284"},"modified":"2005-12-10T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T09:04:00","slug":"comment_ed_masry_rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/12\/comment_ed_masry_rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: Ed Masry, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, we declared the following item from <em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em>  the winner of the <em>Rifftides<\/em> everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-in-the-lead newswriting competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ed Masry, the flamboyant, crusading environmental lawyer portrayed by actor Albert Finney in the movie &#8220;Erin Brockovich,&#8221; which was based on Masry&#8217;s landmark $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas &#038; Electric Co. for ground water contamination in California&#8217;s high desert, has died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reader Dick McGarvin of Los Angeles had this response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Word has it that, at the beginning of this item, Ed was still alive. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, we declared the following item from The Los Angeles Times the winner of the Rifftides everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-in-the-lead newswriting competition. Ed Masry, the flamboyant, crusading environmental lawyer portrayed by actor Albert Finney in the movie &#8220;Erin Brockovich,&#8221; which was based on Masry&#8217;s landmark $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas &#038; Electric Co. for ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}