{"id":165,"date":"2002-10-19T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2002-10-20T05:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2002-10-19T22:59:14","modified_gmt":"2002-10-20T05:59:14","slug":"the-faint-praise-i-have-ever-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/10\/the-faint-praise-i-have-ever-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"The faint praise I have ever heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IHT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/74174.html\">People section<\/a> today carries a quote attributed to David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, about his fiction and literary editor Bill Buford, who will be quitting at the end of the year. Buford was &#8220;one of the great fiction editors that The New Yorker has ever had,&#8221; says Remnick.<\/p>\n<p>Did the editing go awry in Remnick&#8217;s head, or in the head of an IHT copy editor, as I suspect? Or perhaps Remnick meant exactly what he said?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IHT&#8217;s People section today carries a quote attributed to David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, about his fiction and literary editor Bill Buford, who will be quitting at the end of the year. Buford was &#8220;one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/10\/the-faint-praise-i-have-ever-heard\/\">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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-new-york"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-2F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}