{"id":65,"date":"2003-06-23T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2003-06-23T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/2003\/06\/23\/a-fifth-gospel-writer-too\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T04:06:25","slug":"a-fifth-gospel-writer-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/2003\/06\/23\/a-fifth-gospel-writer-too\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fifth Gospel Writer, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a142'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><IMG hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/lydon\/jimmy.gif\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\"><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"4\">Check this out&nbsp;from Jimmy Breslin in Newsday: <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><FONT size=\"4\">&#8220;<\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/columnists\/ny-nybres223342370jun22,0,7919570.column?coll=ny-news-columnists\"><FONT size=\"4\">I am thinking that it could be time for me to begin thinking about leaving this news business. It is not mine anymore. Let me tell you why.<\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=\"4\">&#8220;<\/FONT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"4\">A lot of people are writing to me today&nbsp;and saying: thank God for Jimmy Breslin.&nbsp; Amen.&nbsp; In&nbsp;my crowd, we&#8217;ve always said that in the world of newspaper columnists there was Jimmy Breslin and Murray Kempton and&#8230; a bunch of other guys.<\/FONT>&nbsp; <FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"4\">Who can explain why neither were ever hired by the New York Times?<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out&nbsp;from Jimmy Breslin in Newsday: &#8220;I am thinking that it could be time for me to begin thinking about leaving this news business. It is not mine anymore. Let me tell you why.&#8220;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A lot of people are writing to me today&nbsp;and saying: thank God for Jimmy Breslin.&nbsp; Amen.&nbsp; In&nbsp;my crowd, we&#8217;ve always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/lydondev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}