{"id":12452,"date":"2008-01-24T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12452"},"modified":"2014-01-11T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:15:20","slug":"everythings-not-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/24\/everythings-not-relative\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything&#8217;s <i>not<\/i> relative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People ask me from time to time whether I&#8217;m related to Ric Edelman, the financial guru who writes books and hosts a radio show.  But no, I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p>They also occasionally ask whether I&#8217;m related to Daniel J. Edelman, founder of the PR firm that bears his name.  Nope, no relationship there either.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m in the UK, I sometimes get asked whether I&#8217;m related to Keith Edelman, formerly General Manager and currently President of Arsenal Football. Though we&#8217;ve met, and have joked about being cousins, we&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n<p>And then a couple of times I&#8217;ve been asked  whether I&#8217;m related to Randy Edelman, film composer for <i>Dragonheart<\/i> and the current <i>27 Dresses<\/i>, but whose true claim to fame as far as I&#8217;m concerned is that he  wrote the theme to <i>MacGyver<\/i>. No blood there either.<\/p>\n<p><i>This<\/i> is the Edelman to whom I&#8217;m related.  And strangely, he&#8217;s also the one famous Edelman about whom no one&#8217;s ever asked.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6m7x9GDxwY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People ask me from time to time whether I&#8217;m related to Ric Edelman, the financial guru who writes books and hosts a radio show. But no, I&#8217;m not. They also occasionally ask whether I&#8217;m related to Daniel J. Edelman, founder of the PR firm that bears his name. Nope, no relationship there either. When I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[397],"class_list":["post-12452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-herb-edelman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12453,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12452\/revisions\/12453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}