{"id":543,"date":"2005-10-20T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T13:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2005\/10\/takes_a_lot_to_laugh\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T13:27:33","slug":"takes_a_lot_to_laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2005\/10\/takes_a_lot_to_laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a lot of commentary, And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Editor and Publisher<\/A>&#8216;s Greg Mitchell called the NYTimes Sunday spread &#8220;the gift that keeps on giving&#8230;&#8221; But I still think this is the most vexing piece of the Judy Miller saga: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/16\/national\/16leak.html?pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\">Although she told friends that she was feeling isolated and frustrated, Ms. Miller said she comforted herself with thousands of letters, the supportive editorials in The Times and frequent 30-minute visits from more than 100 friends and colleagues. Among them were Mr. Sulzberger; Tom Brokaw, the former anchor at NBC News; Richard A. Clarke, a former counterterrorism official; AND JOHN R. BOLTON, the United States ambassador to the United Nations&#8230;&#8221;<\/A> [emphasis mine]<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\nWhy would JOHN BOLTON visit Judy Miller in jail? How come nobody&#8217;s looking at him as the source? She went to jail for a source she couldn&#8217;t remember? Is that a joke or something? <BR><BR><br \/>\n<B>WISE AND IN LOVE AT THE SAME TIME?<\/B> <BR><BR><br \/>\nToday on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/soundcheck\/episodes\/10202005\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcheck<\/A>: more on Scorsese&#8217;s Dylan. Stay tuned for the podcast.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read a lot of commentary, And Editor and Publisher&#8216;s Greg Mitchell called the NYTimes Sunday spread &#8220;the gift that keeps on giving&#8230;&#8221; But I still think this is the most vexing piece of the Judy Miller saga: Although she told friends that she was feeling isolated and frustrated, Ms. Miller said she comforted herself [&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-543","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\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}