{"id":1834,"date":"2005-01-09T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2018-07-28T14:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T19:54:14","slug":"1834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/09\/1834\/","title":{"rendered":"Belson Writes a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, look, everybody:  <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0572261\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9Um9uIE1jTGFydHl8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=20\" target=\"_new\">Sergeant Frank Belson<\/a> wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143036688\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0143036688&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=a15a741366d8b24cfd427af0e81e4dd0\" target=\"_new\">a book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News story in <i>USA Today<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/books\/news\/2005-01-03-mclarty-cover_x.htm\" target=\"_new\">&#8216;Memory&#8217; triumphs over publisher apathy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ron McLarty is one of those busy character actors who is recognized but not famous.<\/p>\n<p>He has played a sex therapist on Sex and the City, a judge on Law &#038; Order and is the baritone voice of Papa Bear on the cartoon version of The Berenstain Bears.<\/p>\n<p>At 57, McLarty says he&#8217;s not used to being interviewed: &#8220;Reporters want to talk to the stars. Not me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to mention he was Sgt. Belson in the television show <i>Spenser: For Hire<\/i>, which is probably the highest achievement in his career since it let him portray a character from Robert B. Parker&#8217;s Spenser novels.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I might have to check out the book, <i>The Memory of Running<\/i>, because he&#8217;s related somewhat to the Spenser universe and because it sounds like the plot of a long poem I started sometime after 1987.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\">UPDATE:<\/font> I finally read this book in 2009; you can find its book report <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/book-report-the-memory-of-running-by-ron-mclarty-2004\/\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, look, everybody: Sergeant Frank Belson wrote a book. News story in USA Today: &#8216;Memory&#8217; triumphs over publisher apathy: Ron McLarty is one of those busy character actors who is recognized but not famous. He has played a sex therapist on Sex and the City, a judge on Law &#038; Order and is the baritone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","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=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20717,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/20717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}