
{"id":142,"date":"2002-09-29T23:32:17","date_gmt":"2002-09-30T06:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2002-09-29T23:32:17","modified_gmt":"2002-09-30T06:32:17","slug":"naive-impressionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/09\/naive-impressionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Naive Impressionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a moron. Jews knew beforehand about the September 11 attacks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&amp;StoryID=1510719\">says New Jersey&#8217;s poet laureate<\/a>, because he read it on the internet. The internet, that rock-solid source of truth.<\/p>\n<p>On a different note, it is difficult from this side of the Atlantic to gauge what is the media frenzy du jour. You&#8217;d think the internet knew no bounds, but unless you also go check the front page of the New York Post you are at risk of missing the local story everybody&#8217;s talking about. For example, has the above story already enjoyed 2 days of  over exposure, or is it about to be picked up, or will it pass under the radar screen? Difficult to tell. Suffice to say it is not a story that will perk European ears.<\/p>\n<p>The Europeans, of course, have their own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/september11\/story\/0,11209,677112,00.html\">conspiracy theories to debunk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>[Mon, Sep 30 2002 &#8211; 17:30] Mathew<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stefan.com\">www<\/a>) (<a href=\"mailto:matthew.rose@wsj.com\">email<\/a>) Funnily enough, this is the first time I&#8217;d seen this particular morsel and am surprised it hasn&#8217;t gotten bigger play. Perhaps it&#8217;s too moronic to be given much attention. Most New Jerseyers are more concerned with whether Toricelli&#8217;s going to bow out of the Senate race and why last night&#8217;s episode of the Sopranos was so bad.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this in the Times: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/09\/28\/nyregion\/28POET.html <!-- comment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a moron. Jews knew beforehand about the September 11 attacks, says New Jersey&#8217;s poet laureate, because he read it on the internet. The internet, that rock-solid source of truth. On a different note, it is difficult from this side &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/09\/naive-impressionist\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-economics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-2i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}