{"id":391,"date":"2004-06-03T10:02:11","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/06\/tie_me_up_thats_what_blogs_are\/"},"modified":"2004-06-03T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T14:02:11","slug":"tie_me_up_thats_what_blogs_are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/06\/tie_me_up_thats_what_blogs_are\/","title":{"rendered":"TIE ME UP: That&#8217;s What Blogs Are For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like everybody else, I&#8217;m fascinated by Tony Hendra&#8217;s conversion buzz, but suspicious of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/30\/books\/review\/30SULLIVAN.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Sullivan<\/A>. While gay, and a semi-reformed neo-con (the gay marriage thing had him recanting Bush fever), Sullivan remains, after all, a Catholic. (One wonders what it might take for him to recant THAT fever.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A43981-2004May20.html\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn See<\/A> was disdainful in the WashPost, but a bit overboard. With no time to read something like this, I&#8217;d love to hear some respectable opinions on it. Gary Wills? Michael O&#8217;Donaghue? Harry Shearer? After all, Hendra is the guy who roared &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marksverylarge.com\/recordings\/radiodinner.html\" target=\"_blank\">Genius is PAIN<\/A>!!!!!!!!&#8221;<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<B>Down in front, it&#8217;s time for my notorious impression of Sting.<\/B><BR><BR><br \/>\nRegarding the review posted below: folks who don&#8217;t read the book shouldn&#8217;t review it, period. A substantive disagreement is fine, but with no quotes to rebut directly, I&#8217;m forced to consider the notion that Grace Slick parades covertly as a PW stringer. Who else would care what she thinks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like everybody else, I&#8217;m fascinated by Tony Hendra&#8217;s conversion buzz, but suspicious of Andrew Sullivan. While gay, and a semi-reformed neo-con (the gay marriage thing had him recanting Bush fever), Sullivan remains, after all, a Catholic. (One wonders what it might take for him to recant THAT fever.) Carolyn See was disdainful in the WashPost, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}