{"id":287,"date":"2009-08-26T19:31:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T00:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2009-08-26T19:31:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T00:31:58","slug":"clippings-august-26th-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Clippings: August 26th, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been to NYC since Jesus was a corporal, but for some reason I enjoy reading the NYT<\/strong> food coverage. Retiring food critic Frank Bruni has a nice retrospective piece<\/a> in which he answers questions like “What’s the best sushi?” (Answer: are you willing to drop $400 a person?) and “What’s the best steakhouse?” I would have liked to see more of his greatest hits, such as the classic review of Ninja<\/a>, but you can’t have everything…<\/p>\n

Speaking of the NYT<\/strong>, I have a new blog to watch: The NYTPicker<\/a>. This looks like it could fill the void left by SmarterTimes and the late lamented J. J. Hunsecker’s\u00a0Spy<\/strong> column. If they start referring to “bosomy dirty book writer Shirley Lord”, I am there, man.<\/p>\n

I feel compelled to say something about Teddles, but I (and probably a dozen other people by now) have already used the “…unavailable for comment” trope. So I’m grudgingly linking to Michael Kelly’s “A Sober Look At Ted Kennedy<\/a>“. I say grudgingly because the formatting and pagination of this version of the article is horrible. You’d be a lot better off finding and reading a copy of Kelly’s excellent posthumous collection Things Worth Fighting For: Collected Writings<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been to NYC since Jesus was a corporal, but for some reason I enjoy reading the NYT food coverage. Retiring food critic Frank Bruni has a nice retrospective piece in which he answers questions like “What’s the best sushi?” (Answer: are you willing to drop $400 a person?) and “What’s the best steakhouse?” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-clippings","category-food","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}