{"id":899,"date":"2004-05-05T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2018-08-13T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T21:24:19","slug":"899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/05\/899\/","title":{"rendered":"Steinberg Stings Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/steinberg\/cst-nws-stein05.html\" target=\"new\">current column<\/a> in the <i>Chicago Sun Times<\/i>, stings Bob Greene in a simile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMy room at the David Intercontinental looked down on the beach. The first night I couldn&#8217;t sleep, so went downstairs to slog through the Mediterranean and join what looked like about 10,000 people partying on the sand. I expected young adults dancing the hora. What I found were high school students, some falling-down drunk, clutching tequila bottles. I tried assessing the mood of Israeli youth, which seems to have absorbed our core American values. &#8220;I want to be a star!&#8221; exuded Tal Zolti, 16. Their English was good, but I started feeling like Bob Greene crashing the junior prom, and after one kid called me &#8220;Grandpa&#8221; I decided it was time to head back upstairs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, Bob Greene resigned his position at the <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i> after having an affair with a seventeen-year-old girl (legal in Illinois, fellows!) whom he met on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I am disappointed.  Not because I am a fan of Greene&#8217;s, which I am, but because I&#8217;ve been polishing my own Greene zingers since I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/30\/989\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Bob Greene&#8217;s America<\/i><\/a> and will undoubtedly deploy those zingers in the online review.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, now they&#8217;ll seem derivative of a real writer.  Thanks a lot, Mr. Steinberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his current column in the Chicago Sun Times, stings Bob Greene in a simile: My room at the David Intercontinental looked down on the beach. The first night I couldn&#8217;t sleep, so went downstairs to slog through the Mediterranean and join what looked like about 10,000 people partying on the sand. I expected young [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23266,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/23266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}