{"id":242,"date":"2005-07-21T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danklass.com\/pill\/wordpress\/?p=242"},"modified":"2005-07-21T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T02:05:00","slug":"new-york-times-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/2005\/07\/21\/new-york-times-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times strikes again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/article3\/nyt_logo_sm.gif\"\/><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The Bitterest Pill&#8221; is the podcast of Dan Klass, an intelligent, low-key (depressive?) actor and self-identified addict in Los Angeles; he opines about addiction and complains about his laptop and his health, as his baby cries in the background. Why is this endearing? It just is, like many forthright accounts of boomer loserdom. Mr. Klass also worries about podcasting going mainstream. &#8220;Do you really need to hear Dick and wacky Dale from KRAP in St. Louis?&#8221; he asked on a recent broadcast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The New York Times, July 22, 2005.  From <em>The Critic&#8217;s Notebook<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/22\/arts\/22heff.html\">&#8220;The Podcast as a New Podium&#8221;<\/a> by Virginia Heffernan<\/p>\n<p>Depressive?  Yes.<br \/>\nSelf-identified Addict?  Not officially.  Do they not get the joke?   The Bitterest <em>Pill<\/em>?  The <em>Addict&#8217;s<\/em> Lounge?<br \/>\nBaby cries in the background?  Maybe once in 45 editions.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has done me the honor of &#8220;spelling my name right&#8221; twice now.  I can&#8217;t complain, although I will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Bitterest Pill&#8221; is the podcast of Dan Klass, an intelligent, low-key (depressive?) actor and self-identified addict in Los Angeles; he opines about addiction and complains about his laptop and [&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-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}