{"id":514,"date":"2006-03-30T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/03\/30\/tuesdays-with-al-2\/"},"modified":"2006-03-30T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T23:40:00","slug":"tuesdays-with-al-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2006\/03\/30\/tuesdays-with-al-2\/","title":{"rendered":"tuesdays with al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/1600\/franken.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6608\/1089\/200\/franken.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>i&#8217;m tentatively scheduled to discuss <em>locked out<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/shows.airamericaradio.com\/alfrankenshow\/\">al franken&#8217;s <em>air america<\/em> show<\/a> at 12:30 this tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>i say <em>tentatively scheduled <\/em>because it is not uncommon to bump the pencil-necked profs from such shows when a big news story breaks. in politics, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,185238,00.html\">a lot can happen over a weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m excited about the interview, which should be more engaging than other appearances. mr. franken is erudite and progressive, but he doesn&#8217;t affect the frowny-faced earnestness of other lefty journalists. he is a plenty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/21\/magazine\/21FRANKEN.html?ex=1395205200&amp;en=5c47bbc5c11b11f2&amp;amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\">tough<\/a> ex-<a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/wrestling-and-trying.html\">wrestler<\/a>, but he doesn&#8217;t affect the wannabe tough-guy act of right-wing talkradio.<\/p>\n<p>because mr. franken loves to riff, anything can happen. i won&#8217;t know until halfway through the interview whether i&#8217;m playing lead or rhythm guitar, but i&#8217;ll show up ready to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m tentatively scheduled to discuss locked out on al franken&#8217;s air america show at 12:30 this tuesday. i say tentatively scheduled because it is not uncommon to bump the pencil-necked profs from such shows when a big news story breaks. in politics, a lot can happen over a weekend. i&#8217;m excited about the interview, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}