{"id":13659,"date":"2014-07-21T05:20:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13659"},"modified":"2014-07-21T05:20:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:20:05","slug":"our-own-royko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/our-own-royko\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Own Royko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Springfield News-Leader<\/em> has a metro columnist now.  His debut is entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/news\/local\/ozarks\/2014\/07\/20\/rollins-springfield-good-place\/12926351\/\" target=\"_blank\">Springfield as good a place as any<\/a>&#8220;.  Highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Springfield, in my estimation, is as good a place as any. It&#8217;s got its own drama and history. It has highlights and faults.<\/p>\n<p>It has culture and religion and art. And, if you&#8217;d prefer to avoid a 15-hour flight for comparisons, you can just take my word for it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;ll never leave Springfield, but it&#8217;s got enough to continue my curiosity, for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>This piece, by way of introduction, is to explain what I&#8217;m doing as the News-Leader&#8217;s metro columnist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am pretty sure he&#8217;s serious.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper, meanwhile, is almost to the point of its distributors taping it to rocks and throwing it through living room windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Springfield News-Leader has a metro columnist now. His debut is entitled &#8220;Springfield as good a place as any&#8220;. Highlights: Springfield, in my estimation, is as good a place as any. It&#8217;s got its own drama and history. It has highlights and faults. It has culture and religion and art. And, if you&#8217;d prefer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-springfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13661,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions\/13661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}