{"id":64,"date":"2003-09-25T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=64"},"modified":"2003-09-25T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2003-09-25T10:18:07","slug":"edward-said-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/edward-said-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Said dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/25\/obituaries\/25CND-SAID.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">read the New York Times obit. <\/a>  Said&#8217;s life offers a plain lesson about the tendency of the media to pigeonhole people.  From the story: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was an exemplar of American multiculturalism, at home both in Arabic and English, but, as he once put it, &#8220;a man who lived two quite separate lives,&#8221; one as an American university professor, the other as a fierce critic of American and Israeli policies and an equally fierce proponent of the Palestinian cause.<\/p>\n<p>\nThough a defender of Islamic civilization, Mr. Said was an Episcopalian married to a Quaker. He was also an excellent pianist who for several years was the music critic for The Nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this biz we tend to forget people have such complicated lives. Probably because it&#8217;s hard to get it all into a tight head count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; read the New York Times obit. Said&#8217;s life offers a plain lesson about the tendency of the media to pigeonhole people. From the story: He was an exemplar of American multiculturalism, at home both in Arabic and English, but,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/edward-said-dies\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}