{"id":16130,"date":"2008-12-10T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16130"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T17:48:25","slug":"bail-out-the-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/10\/bail-out-the-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail out the writers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/14\/books\/review\/Greenberg-t.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">an essay currently online over at <i>The New York Times<\/i><\/a> (but which won&#8217;t appear on dead trees until this Sunday&#8217;s issue of <i>NYT Book Review<\/i>), Paul Greenberg has a suggestion for turning around the economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NYTBR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NYTBR-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"NYTBR\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NYTBR-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/NYTBR.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His thesis is in his title&#151;&#8221;Bail Out the Writers!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The piece begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A little while back my daughter told me the following depressing joke:<\/p>\n<p>Woman: What do you do?<\/p>\n<p>Man: Me? Oh, I write books.<\/p>\n<p>Woman: How interesting! Have you sold anything recently?<\/p>\n<p>Man: Why, yes. My couch, my car and my flat-screen television.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Greenberg apparently knows the world of the writer far too well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an essay currently online over at The New York Times (but which won&#8217;t appear on dead trees until this Sunday&#8217;s issue of NYT Book Review), Paul Greenberg has a suggestion for turning around the economy. His thesis is in his title&#151;&#8221;Bail Out the Writers!&#8221; The piece begins: A little while back my daughter told [&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":[],"class_list":["post-16130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16130","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=16130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16132,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16130\/revisions\/16132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}