{"id":66834,"date":"2018-05-16T08:13:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66834"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:13:28","slug":"a-bad-week-for-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66834","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Week For Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Wolfe, author of a shelf full of seminal American journalism and literature, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/15\/obituaries\/tom-wolfe-pyrotechnic-nonfiction-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-88.html\">dead at 88<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And later yesterday, word circulated on social media (although I&#8217;ve found no confirmation yet in the dead-tree media) that Nick Coleman, longtime columnist (as with all columnists in the Twin Cities, it seems) for both the Strib and the PiPress, had suffered a massive stroke and passed away.<\/p>\n<p>More on that when more details are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Wolfe, author of a shelf full of seminal American journalism and literature, dead at 88. And later yesterday, word circulated on social media (although I&#8217;ve found no confirmation yet in the dead-tree media) that Nick Coleman, longtime columnist (as with all columnists in the Twin Cities, it seems) for both the Strib and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-66834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam","tag-coleman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66835,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66834\/revisions\/66835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}