{"id":842,"date":"2004-06-02T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/06\/no-new-new-yorkers.html"},"modified":"2004-06-02T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T22:00:00","slug":"no-new-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/06\/no-new-new-yorkers.html","title":{"rendered":"No New New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

My latest New Yorker<\/i><\/a> magazine came and on it was a cover that practically screamed, “Only one month to go!” In my old life, that would have had me scrambling to renew. But now I can only think, “Thank goodness!” Those New Yorkers<\/i> have been piling up, taunting me, teasing me with this idea of an outside world that I’ve all but shut myself out of in favor of Sandra Boynton<\/a> and Goodnight Moon<\/i><\/a>. I’ve taken to asking the Tweedle Twirp (who reads the magazine regularly) to let me know if there are any must-read articles because I just can’t find the time to find them myself.<\/p>\n

The magazines are heaped by the living room arm chair, and I can’t help but look at them guiltily, thinking about how little I know about what’s going on in the world. My grandfather used to collect New Yorkers<\/i> because he couldn’t keep up with them either. Of course, he read them from cover to cover whereas I merely skim them for the cartoons and then read just the articles that look interesting. I think my grandfather stopped his subscription in 1986 and finally finished reading the stack that he had sometime in the early 1990s. I finally admitted defeat a couple of weeks ago and tossed a whole bunch of the magazines into recycling. And yet they’re like bunnies, and even though I disposed of a good twenty, the pile has gone forth and multiplied.<\/p>\n

At this point in my life, I’m not meant to be a New Yorker<\/i> reader. That time will come again. Someday. (And let’s not get into my thoughts on how much the magazine has deteriorated over the years. The David Remnick New Yorker<\/i> is of course better than the Tina Brown New Yorker<\/i>, but it’s not the New Yorker<\/i> I remember from, well, my New York years. Ah the William Shawn\/Robert Gottlieb eras. Now those<\/i> were the days…).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My latest New Yorker magazine came and on it was a cover that practically screamed, “Only one month to go!” In my old life, that would have had me scrambling to renew. But now I can only think, “Thank goodness!” Those New Yorkers have been piling up, taunting me, teasing me with this idea of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}